I honestly have no idea what's going to happen. Whoever holds the majority after probably won't hold it by many seats. If dems do take the House, I seriously doubt it will be a
shellacking like the 2010 midterms were. If that's what you're hoping for, you're probably going to be pretty disappointed.
Either way, the midterms are still 7 months away, which gives both parties plenty of time to fuck up any advantage they might have at any point in time before the election.
That's the thing though. I acknowledge that I don't know what's going to happen. You, time4cunt, and soywolff seem to think it's already in the bag and that the House is gonna be like 435-0. Which isn't really any different than how she acted about the 2016 election, right up until she became more scared politically than she's ever been in her lifetime.
Speaking of, perhaps she'll tell us about all the bad and scary things that Trump caused to happen to her since he got elected. I doubt she will though, since nothing bad has happened to her due to Trump winning, and she was just being a drama queen like always.
You should also keep in mind that the DNC's platform still currently consists of "We hate Trump and no one should have guns!" and pretty much nothing else.
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It's pretty magic to see you go from 13 to 40 to 12 so quickly. I'll respond to 40 year old you.
I've never said it was a lock. But partisan politics has its ebbs and flows. At some point you will just have to accept that I was able to correctly predict the electoral shift left we've seen over the last year in almost 100 special elections. And it wasn't because I'm psychic or a political genius- this country has its own political physics. The shift is as predictable as the shift to the right in 2010.
But directionality and degree are two different things. I've said for over a year now that we would see a shift left, but I never claimed it would result in Dems taking the House or Senate. It's likely that the GOP will lose the House. But it's also likely that they will keep it. There are structural variables in play that I have been talking about for years (gerrymandering, voter Suppression, and the population clustering that has come to define the political left). And there are very some variables at play right now that are so rare as to be borderline unique.
Finally, the impact that Trump's policies have on my life and the lives of my family is hardly a political anamoly. There are a LOT of families like mine. And even more social circles with similar concerns. If you had spent less time jeering at that fact- you might have seen this shift coming.
Food for thought.