eolesen
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Mark my words, the House will turn blue next year, but you will probably keep the Senate.
Yeah, not convinced. Winning in flyover country is the only real opportunity for the Democrats, and it's where they failed the most in 2016.
Assuming tax reform passes (which it should), favorability ratings are going to shift upward for both Congress and Trump, especially once the middle class starts to see more in their paychecks.
Likewise when people get their year-end 401K and IRA statements. Mine is up 30% since the election. That's bigly huge winning, and not something the Dems can claim credit on.
And then there's the millenials who will be freed from mandatory health insurance and its costs. Another shift the Dems can't claim as theirs.
So far, the only thing Dems have is hating Trump and one seat that they won thru 40 year old allegations.
In the meantime, they've lost three House seats and possibly a very popular Senator on sexual misconduct claims, not to mention losing a lot of the moral ground with huge DNC supporters like Matt Lauer, Winescum, and possibly now Chris Matthews (who apparently really enjoyed getting his tingles in the workplace a little too much?).
Jim, to your point about the Clintons... it's a bit ironic that it took a nutjob like Moore for mainstream media and others to finally admit that they were wrong in glossing over Clinton's misdeeds.
What I suspect will happen is that after a year of hearing about nothing but sex, people are going to be numbed. It makes for juicy headlines, but in the end, it gets tiresome and people will tune out on that and focus on other things more important to them, i.e. health care, taxes, jobs....