I guess voters have gotten tired of all the winning
It makes no sense to me, but all signs are that the US voting public is poised to put Democrats in charge of Congress. As time passes, I become more and more convinced that voters operate through pique and illogic. Things aren’t perfect? Turn the bums out and put in the far greater bums.
I guess they want to see endless and meaningless impeachment theater again.
Meanwhile, the economy is doing rather well, although you wouldn’t know it from the MSM:
Ah yes, the midterms.
As I’ve said, you can make a case that the economy is great or that it’s bad.
You can bet that between now and November, the Democrats and the media — but I repeat myself — will be focusing on the bad.
It’s an old playbook, one that Bill Clinton’s pollster Mark Penn wielded to defeat President George H.W. Bush in 1992.
The economy had actually recovered from a brief recession in 1991, but voters thought otherwise — because the media told them so.
“There is often a huge disconnect between belief about the economy and the true economic state of affairs,” Penn wrote in his 2007 book “Microtrends.”
“Until the statistics are actually published, people tend to assess the economy through the eyes of the national media.”
During the 1992 election, Clinton repeatedly told us we were experiencing the worst economy in 50 years.
The press echoed that message dutifully.
But as Penn recounted with glee, “The statistics that came out after the election showed that the period leading up to November had actually been a period of record growth.”
Whether this is the best of economies, the worst of economies, or something in between, you can bet that for the next month-plus we’ll be told it’s the worst.
Then there’s the Iran War – in which very few Americans have died or even fought. It’s come down to an economic war at the moment, one we seem to be winning. And Hormuz is pretty much open.
Let’s see, what else? Crime way down. Border closed.
One fear I have is that, as older cohorts die off and are replaced by the young who’ve been steeped in decades of miseducation, the trend to the left will only increase.
In the meantime:
As you struggle to pay your own bills, are you prepared to pay the bills for millions of non-citizens, too? That’s what Democrats are proposing – and every GOP campaign ought to be all over it. pic.twitter.com/tRD9omXTbW
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) September 24, 2026
“There is often a huge disconnect between belief about the economy and the true economic state of affairs,” Penn wrote in his 2007 book “Microtrends.”
The bigger picture here is that everyone should be very skeptical of everything they hear in the media. OTOH, what does a person believe? Ya gotta make some decisions, after all! And thus, beliefs.
My following point is related, though a little tangential:
The common wisdom about inflation in a national economy is that you really want to avoid substantial inflation for more than a year or two, because by then it becomes ingrained in the national psyche and it becomes very difficult to curtail.
Milton Friedman addressed this in one of his books. What is it exactly that penetrates the thinking of the average Joe or Jane that gets them acclimated to the idea of inflation? It’s when they, or their neighbor Pete, gets a salary increase. Or multiple increases.
I think there have been some significant pay increases during this Trump economy. But I fear that high gas & diesel prices and the media will win out. Get ready for a Democrat congress.