Posted on 03/26/2018 7:44:32 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A report released Monday suggests Democrats might have to temper their enthusiasm about climbing back to power during this year’s midterm elections.
To win a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, Democrats would need a tremendous electoral wave not seen in more than 40 years to overcome Republican advantages from gerrymandered districts in key states, according to an analysis from the Brennan Center for Justice.
The report projects that Democrats would need to win the national popular vote for congressional districts by a nearly 11 percentage point margin over Republicans to gain more than the roughly two dozen seats they need to flip control of the Republican-led chamber.
That would take more than the typical Democratic wave that history suggests would occur for the party out of power during a midterm election.
“It would be the equivalent of a tsunami,” said Michael Li, a senior counsel who heads up redistricting work for the center, which is based at New York University School of Law. “Democrats would have to win larger than any sort of recent midterm wave — almost double what they got in 2006 — in order to win a narrow majority.” …
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Well, they did register thousands of pre-school and elementary kids to vote at the Stayin’ Alive parades Saturday.
Well if you have the dems and throw in the RINOs, with their "leader" Paul Ryno, then they have an overwhelming majority.
Disagree. The Dem’s only require that most of their normal voter base show up to vote. Conservatives, on the other hand, need to get off of their lazy arses and show up. Voter apathy on the part of Conservatives is what defeats us.
Yes, but with the cowardly Republicans, how much difference does it make? At least the Republicans won’t try to impeach Trump.... I think.
“Disagree”
All that is necessary for Trump to lose is for people such as I to do nothing.
From looking at the Budget that was signed last week by President Trump, it’s apparent that the Democrats control the House and Senate.
Whatever the ‘Rats need the GOP will provide.
And the Dem media, boy are they going to be disappointed again.
We need new Republicans.
Too many of the ones we have are really undocumented Democrats in R jerseys.
PA-18 showed me the GOPe will lose the house.
Its the economy stupid. 6 million Americans got thousands of dollars in Tax cut bonuses and not one Dem voted for it.
Individual mandate killed, that was a Dem policy, as was the 29 hour work week per Obamacare.
Now people are getting 50 dollars a week less withholding
and that is making people more positive minded about the economy, and this is all GOP not one Dem.
Dems pushed obscene Omnibus spending pork, didn’t do Daca, didn’t fund border agents or the wall.
Dems are in trouble, and Republican fund raising is way larger than Dems.
Dems won PA. by distancing from leadership and embracing Republican policy. In LA. Mitch McTurdle worked against and spent $30 million to defeat Judge Moore, I don’t see this as a Dem win, it was the Swamp vs. a Conservative.
“Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.”Funny that I still see the word “cowardly” when the word should be “collaborating”. Especially in light of how long it has been going on.
— Communist goal #15
Franklin Roosevelt’s rapid conversion from Constitutionalism to the doctrine of unlimited government is an oft-told story. But I am here concerned not so much by the abandonment of states’ rights by the national Democratic Party — an event that occurred some years ago when that party was captured by the socialist ideologues in and about the labor movement — as by the unmistakable tendency of the Republican Party to adopt the same course. […] Thus, the cornerstone of the Republic, our chief bulwark against the encroachment (on) individual freedom by Big Government, is fast disappearing under the piling sands of absolutism.
The Republican Party, to be sure, gives lip service to states’ rights. We often talk about “returning to the states their rightful powers”; the Administration has even gone so far as to sponsor a federal-state conference on the problem. But deeds are what count, and I regret to say that in actual practice, the Republican Party, like the Democratic Party, summons the coercive power of the federal government whenever national leaders conclude that the states are not performing satisfactorily. …
— The Conscience of a Conservative (1960), pp. 24-25
SO once again intimidating that Republicans win because of gerrymandering. The Dims invented it!
Nah; it didn’t. That was not a conservative district to begin with, no matter how much the media played it up. The prior representative was himself a RINO.
Not that there is a significant difference. The Uniparty merely plays musical chairs.
And all the Freepers go,
“Yeah, but...”
Trump really can’t afford to have it even come close, as there are sure to be some Never Trumper GOPe in liberal districts who would cross over on an impeachment.
But November is a long ways away.
I’m not so sure we won’t pick up seats!!!
Disco still sucks.
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