Midterms: Blue wave, or Red wave?

[Flash]

I have no prediction yet

The real question is if the demalquedacrats don’t take back the House, who will they blame?

The losing side will blame cheating, rigged elections, voter suppression, illegal aliens voting..........I don't think Democrats winning the House will change much. Trump has not done much legislating and presidential support in Congress declines over time since his party loses seats in mid-terms.

[Flash]

The usual Wall Street/donor/"job creator" class wave followed by more societal economic cannibalism with the attendant societal wealth extraction, concentration, and resistribution.

Somebody has been reading Marx, again.

[Nordberg]

Somebody has been reading Marx, again.

Being observant. Wealth gap is worse than the Gilded Age. The rich are getting richer and more powerful very rapidly Trump has no intention of slowing that down.

[Fentoine Lum]

sure there is....first there is the economy......second there is the demmycrat platform......"we gonna raise you taxes"......

Yes, the Wall Street/donor/"job creator" class always does well; by design. The Dems are corporatists just like the "other party" so that's a wash. They (dems/reps) compete to serve the aristocracy, and the economic system was rerigged in the early 1970's divorcing the increases in worker productivity from worker compensation. If "either" party had ever had any issues with that they would have acted long before now.

You partisashitheads just need to be kept quibbling amongst yourselves so the charade may continue unabated.

[Flash]

Being observant. Wealth gap is worse than the Gilded Age. The rich are getting richer and more powerful very rapidly Trump has no intention of slowing that down.

You don't get this information from being observant.

[Nordberg]

You don't get this information from being observant.

and reading.https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/...n_1032632.html It is obvious that the Repubs want that since they voted for a plutocrat for president,

[PostmodernProphet]

Yblahblahblh.

watermark does it better

[archives]

How about it lefties, is there going to be a blue wave? How do you think midterms will go down?

No such thing as red wave

The GOP will pick up additional seats in the Senate, demographically they can't help to given the Democrats are defending twenty four seats

The House may flip or come close to flip, either way neither party will have a solid majority, meaning if they hope to pass anything it would have to be nonpartisan

And all that is of today, given the time, Donald could lay any number of eggs inbetween now and then, even five months is an eternity in politics

[LV426]

How about it lefties, is there going to be a blue wave? How do you think midterms will go down?

I'd say best-case scenario for the GOP is the Democrats take about 30 seats in the House, maybe gain a seat in the Senate, and gain 500 combined state legislature seats and governorships.

I think the realistic scenario is a GOP loss of about 75-85 seats in the House, 3-4 seats in the Senate, most all the governor's races, and probably 750-800 state legislative seats.

Best-case Democratic scenario would be the GOP losing 100+ House seats, most all the senate races, and 1000 combined state legislative seats and governorships. And it's not inconceivable that it could happen that way given how the GOP has backed Trump and stirred up the Democratic base.

[Flash]

and reading.https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/...n_1032632.html It is obvious that the Repubs want that since they voted for a plutocrat for president,

I figured you for a Mother Jones guy.

[Flash]

I'd say best-case scenario for the GOP is the Democrats take about 30 seats in the House, maybe gain a seat in the Senate, and gain 500 combined state legislature seats and governorships.

I think the realistic scenario is a GOP loss of about 75-85 seats in the House, 3-4 seats in the Senate, most all the governor's races, and probably 750-800 state legislative seats.

Best-case Democratic scenario would be the GOP losing 100+ House seats, most all the senate races, and 1000 combined state legislative seats and governorships. And it's not inconceivable that it could happen that way given how the GOP has backed Trump and stirred up the Democratic base.

Based on primary turnout I haven't seen much enthusiasm by either party.

[Nordberg]

I figured you for a Mother Jones guy.

For some reason i am supposed to care what you figure?

[Nordberg]

This election also has the "year of the woman" component. That favors Dems because few women are permitted to run in the Repug party.

[Nordberg]

I figured you for a Mother Jones guy.

You do not figure well. I get emails every day from Repubs sites. I also read a couple righty sites. I don't read Brietbart or Fox because they are insane in their hate. Infowars is even worse. But there are more intellectual right wing sites that are able to carry on conversations .

[Flash]

For some reason i am supposed to care what you figure?

You don't have to "care" about observations or comments people make. But our opinions about the world usually mirror the sources of our information.