2018 Is No 2010

For obvious reasons, Democrats are hoping the 2018 midterm election is like that of 2010, when 60+ House seats were won by the opposition party. Power Line’s John Hinderaker suggests why that may not be an appropriate analogy.

In 2010, Democratic Congressmen had cast two votes that were highly unpopular in most of America. They rammed both Obamacare and the now largely-forgotten nearly-trillion-dollar stimulus through Congress with zero Republican support.

That was the origin of the Tea Party. Democrats running in 2010 weren’t defending Barack Obama, they were defending unpopular votes that they had taken.

Nothing like that is true this year. Republican Congressmen haven’t done anything that is especially unpopular. The Democrats tried to portray the tax cut that way, but that was silly. Tax cuts aren’t unpopular.

Tax cuts are roughly as unpopular as ice cream cones, I’d estimate.