Democrats are having pre-midterm nightmares

Ben Schreckinger at Politico writes they are traumatized by 2016.

Poor dears.

They're confused, and mostly because of journalists like Schreckinger who starts his article with self-medicating.

On the eve of the midterms, President Donald Trump’s approval is falling, young voters are energized, and Republicans look poised to lose their House majority. 

He's relying on polls. Having already died a thousand deaths by polls Schreckinger cannot give them up because polls are all that he has to formulate opinion. That's part of his/their nightmare. He doesn't trust them yet he writes that.

“We're kind of just in the bed-wetting phase now," said Democratic pollster John Anzalone, a Hillary Clinton campaign alumnus who spent election night 2016 in Clinton’s Manhattan war room. 

Two years later, even thinking about the prospect of a repeat of that night’s letdown is still too much for many Democrats to bear. 

“Stop it!” shouted Nadeam Elshami, a former chief of staff to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, when asked about that possibility. To be fair, the possibility has literally haunted his dreams. 

Much more liberal nonsense at Politico, all the people you wisely avoid thinking about, more of the ridiculous things that they think and say. More poll data they use to swing on.

They should be worried. Deeply worried. They should be taking drugs to relax and more drugs to sleep. They should be seeing their analysts, let it all out, and while there  beg for mood enhancers.

Not because of polls. Not because of trends. Not because of historic data. Not because of their imagined foreign interference, not because of their feelings.

Rather they should have nightmares and poor sleep, upset nervous systems, and bad stomachs because of these early return numbers presented by Don Surber.

And number of attendees at Trump rallies that are astonishing for any politician at any point in history for any culture you care to mention. Just look at them; Macon Georgia yesterday with crowds that are veritably uncountable and enthusiasm that is unmeasurable. And again later in the day at Chattanooga Tennessee featuring Pence, local candidates and Lee Greenwood, the singer and songwriter his supporters had been hearing and singing along with at every rally throughout including the rallies that lead to Trump's election. Republican enthusiasm is indescribable even as America's equivalent to Russia's TASS's reporting on them is muted and distorted. America has not seen a president stump for Party as effectively as Trump has already done. This is an historic first.

Alarming for Democrats, the stuff of nightmares, especially when compared with rallies by Obama that must pay people to attend in order to draw a fake crowd that is small, and when stumping concentrate on wealthy donors to bless with their presence as they beg them for cash. Expecting their voters to simply follow. Tickets for "an evening"with Hillary and Bill Clinton will cost you $1,800.00. Still a draw in New York, and satisfying for Clintons, but insufficient to win an election.