How can we guarantee that the "loser" democrats will be losing?
I guess I inquire as to why we say they are losing when they gained seats in both the house and the Senate in 2016.
Previous Congress:
House Membership
246 Republicans
187 Democrats
Senate Membership
54 Republicans
44 Democrats
2 Independents
Current Congress:
House membership
238 Republicans -8
193 Democrats +6
4 Vacant
Senate membership
52 Republicans -2
46 Democrats +2
2 Independents
Gaining seats is losing?
I don't particularly care about it one or the other, but I want to understand the metric of "losing" that we are talking about.
For full disclosure, I believe that Republicans did gain +3 at that level. so that's a -3 for the Dems there. Still comes across as even money to me.
http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/2018-senate/North Dakota, Missouri, Montana and Indiana are GONE for The Democrats.
Now look at the rest of the light blue states.
Ohio, West Virginia, Florida are almost certainly gone for the Democrats.
And they will have their hands full trying to maintain Pennsylvania, Virginia and Minnesota.
NAFTA + Pro Second amendment message is the recipe for success for these areas and Trump is working it like a charm.
Meanwhile the Democrats have no real answer and no real message for these states.
People from these areas could care less about The Simpsons or some cliche, played out Steven Cobert monologue.