Thread Request: Midterms

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Conventional wisdom has the Republicans winning the Senate, picking up three or four seats, and the Democrats just winning the House. Pretty standard prediction, safe on all accounts

Consequences should be interesting, McConnell will ram thru anything he can especially judge appointments, pissing off Democrats, and the House will be focused on investigating everything Trump, annoying Republicans. Nothing legislatively will be accomplished and it will all set up a historically ugly election in 2020

And on top of this, Trump will fire Sessions, probably before Christmas, appoint a overtly partisan Trump guy who will immediately cut Mueller's budget and eventually quietly pocket any results Mueller comes up. It will be like throwing gas on an already inflamed two years

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I don’t make predictions, polls are unreliable, do they factor in the newly registered voters or just the likely to vote. Turn out will be a big factor in 2018.

Since the decline in land lines and the age of cell phones.Polls are worthless

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I agree but I think the Democrats will win the House with 5ish extra seats.

Not exactly the tsunami you guys were crowing about is it

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Not exactly the tsunami you guys were crowing about is it

Does one or forty one make a difference, all those House Committees Republicans have been employing to defend Trump will then be investigating Trump, it is a majority rule body

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Does one or forty one make a difference, all those House Committees Republicans have been employing to defend Trump will then be investigating Trump, it is a majority rule body

True, but it seems like you democrats are tempering expectations. Just sayin

I still don't see any evidence of a blue wave or tsunami, but I guess time will tell. I still maintain a 5-7 seat pickup in the Senate. And who knows maybe if things get really nuts the GOP gets a filibuster proof Senate. How cool would that be? Then we could shit can that cunt Murkowski. She would probably switch parties though just to be the cunt that she really is

It is a real long shot for them to take 60 seats, but crazier things have happened.

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True, but it seems like you democrats are tempering expectations. Just sayin

I still don't see any evidence of a blue wave or tsunami, but I guess time will tell. I still maintain a 5-7 seat pickup in the Senate. And who knows maybe if things get really nuts the GOP gets a filibuster proof Senate. How cool would that be? Then we could shit can that cunt Murkowski. She would probably switch parties though just to be the cunt that she really is

It is a real long shot for them to take 60 seats, but crazier things have happened.

Few elections are waves in any direction, even 2016, although conservatives won't admit, wasn't projected days before the election to be a Hillary gimme, especially after Comey reentered the mix

And filibusters matter little now, Reid started it, and McConnell took it to the extreme, the Senate has become a majority rule body just like the House. If given the two or three seats the GOP should pick up, if passing legislation becomes a problem Mitch will do away with the filibuster or sixty vote ceiling

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Few elections are waves in any direction, even 2016, although conservatives won't admit, wasn't projected days before the election to be a Hillary gimme, especially after Comey reentered the mix

And filibusters matter little now, Reid started it, and McConnell took it to the extreme, the Senate has become a majority rule body just like the House. If given the two or three seats the GOP should pick up, if passing legislation becomes a problem Mitch will do away with the filibuster or sixty vote ceiling

What will you blame if the democrats don't take back the House?