I agree and wonder why people don’t get this. You can live by the gerrymander and die by it as well. Give the other guy a few 90-10 seats so that you get a shitload of 52-48 seats. It works until there is an election where your party gets drubbed.
The election that REALLY matters is 2020. If Republicans nominate another zero, then that could hurt them downballot and cost them statehouses just in time for redistricting.
[Deiter] And THEN … we will DANCE! [/Deiter]
I don’t know what Trump or the GOP will do post-fail, but the enraged, mooing herd that supported him will still walk among us. Makes me glad we spent all that $$$ constructing those Jade Helm 15 detention facilities deep beneath the nation’s Walmarts, it does.
Actually, this is the one. The Republicans are having a fit about the Supreme Court for a good reason. If a gerrymandering case comes up before a court with a liberal majority, and they find that the gerrymandering violates one man one vote and requires redress like impartial or algorithmic redistricting, the GOP is screwed. And they know it. And we won’t have to wait for the demographics to change.
Remember the 2006 Congressional elections? Bush’s popularity was sinking, the Iraq war was not going according to plan, and the Democrats flipped 31 House seats and 6 Senate seats to gain control of Congress. As an added bonus, they also flipped 6 governorships and 4 state legislatures, to achieve a Democratic plurality there, as well.
Out of curiosity, I turned on Rush the next day to see what his take would be. He confidently proclaimed that the Republicans deserved to lose because they ran a bunch of false conservatives, and now that all those people had been defeated, the REAL conservatives were set to triumph in 2008.
I expect the reaction to be similar this time around, especially since Rush wanted Cruz to be the nominee.
YEE(alo)HAW!!!
Well I see a very slim hope that if Sanders manages to keep his base fired up then he can at the least encourage more of a youth voter turnout in 2018. Say what you like about him but now he’s doing the sensible thing, telling all this supporters that are disappointed he didn’t win to support downticket races and get involved in local politics.
And yeah I don’t see the GOP crumbling but I do see violence at the polling booths and in the immediate days after as all too likely. Expect a rash of more Oregon style sieges where militias try to claim Clinton is not a legitimate President and take over minor government buildings in BFN.
Why is everyone so confident that Trump is incapable of winning?
Ain’t nobody here but us chickens.
Have you ever seen him on the TV?
(Just want to say I’m really enjoying all the different scenarios everyone’s put forth. I could not have come up with most of them. Lots to think about!)
Because he is actually mentally ill and is incapable of reining back his crazy to something that appeals to the sensible centre right. That and check the polls…
He’s incapable of applying any filters between his reptilian brain and his bionic mouth. His Trump The Insult Comic Dog shtick worked when the voters were all right wing ideologues, but when the electorate includes everybody hi degrades on a daily basis, it doesn’t play as well. In the debates, he’s going to look like the jock who gives his oral book report based on a quick skim of an online summary going up against the author of the book. She will be calm but forceful and presidential, while he’s going to be his usual blustery blowhard self.
Because he is.
I see a red state legislature/governor provoking some sort of Wallace-in-the schoolhouse-door sooner or later. Probably sooner.
I don’t think losing is going to make these nuts go away with their tails between their legs, I think it’s going to make them unravel faster.