Senate and House Update, Oct. 12, 2018: The Kavanaugh Surge Continues

Things are not going according to the Democrat script.

by Rod D. Martin
October 12, 2018

SENATE AND HOUSE UPDATE: It's been a heck of a week since the Kavanaugh confirmation, in which the belief that the left's assault on due process -- not to mention on the Kavanaugh family, and by implication, the family of anyone the left decides it doesn't like -- might backfire has indeed borne out.

We start with the President, who after all is supposedly the centerpiece of all that is wrong with the world, particularly from a #MeToo perspective. Donald Trump's approval rating hit 51% for most of the last week, starting immediately before Kavanaugh's confirmation. Today it settled back to 49%, but these are among the highest numbers of his Presidency, and are quite a lot higher than Barack Obama at the same time in 2010.

(Yes, those are Rasmussen numbers, which have consistently been the most accurate public numbers aside from Trafalgar Group; however, it's worth noting that while many of the predictably-leftist polls are lower, in fact, there are severa…