2018 Election? Have you seen what we are up against?

[Kablooie]

Senate seats up for re-election:
25 - Democratic
8 - Republican

House:
All 435 up for re-election but Republicans have a 23 seat majority

So to gain control of the government again we need to hold all 25 Democratic Senate seats and turn 3 of 8 Republicans. A number of the Democratic seats are in states that supported Trump.

In the House we need to hold on to 194 seats and flip 24 seats.

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That's why the Republicans double down on protecting Trump's treason. There very little chance for Democrats to gain power in 2018 so their best strategy is not to rock the boat.
If they allowed Trump's collusion with Putin to blacken the eye of the Republican party it would diminish their chances in 2018.

It will take an unprecedentedly huge portion of voting public to turn in order to regain control.

Something went very, very, very wrong with our country.

[BannonsLiver]

1. Umm

There are 24-25 GOP house seats in districts where Clinton won. Only in the minds of the biggest party hacks is the GOP in good shape with respect to the House in 2018. You should probably read the Cook report of follow Larry Sabato on Twitter. They'll tell you all about it.

[Raster]

2. IT. CAN. BE. DONE.

[Demsrule86]

4. Often midterms with an unpopular president result in a

wave election...I think there is a chance...we get the House and the Senate.

[Ohioblue22]

5. we will win nothing if the dems dont get the kind of id required

find out how to find your polling places . makes sure you werent purged , still registered to vote . and actually vote for the party nom.

voting for stein or hrambe is only gonna get more cons

[Orsino]

6. Have you seen how hard the GOP is working for us?

If we can't score big victories next year, we never will.

[Amishman]

7. House will be easy, Senate will be a challenge

If I were the betting type I would go with flipping the house with 10+ seats to spare.

Senate is rough, I see a 2 seat gain most likely, 3 at most. Outside of NV and AZ, all the R seats are in very red States.

[sarcasmo]

8. Let's hope the 2018 election happens.

[Initech]

9. Two words: Koch Money

That's the biggest problem plaguing our country right now. If we can get that out of politics, that is what it takes. If it takes a war to do that, that is a war I am prepared to fight.

[crazycatlady]

10. We can get a lot of governors elected

Important because they will oversee redistricting.

[Blaukraut]

11. Provided there will even BE an election

We should watch out for voter suppression, funny business at the polls, etc etc. Barring all that, we should win both Senate and House majorities.

[Kablooie]

13. And Russian hackers and bots will certainly help too.

[Ace Rothstein]

12. This is encouraging in regards to the House.

https://poll.qu.edu/images/polling/us/us05102017_U392prfb.pdf/

By a 54 – 38 percent margin, American voters want the Democratic Party to win control
of the U.S. House of Representatives. This is the widest margin ever measured for this question
in a Quinnipiac University poll, exceeding a 5 percentage point margin for Republicans in 2013.

That's more than a wave if it holds and we don't screw it up.

[Kablooie]

14. God I hope Republicans pay for supporting treason.

[briv1016]

15. Expect a 50 state voter ID bill sometime mid to late next year.

Also possible is a ban on all early voting, "modernizing" (paperless) voting requirements and deployment of "authorized poll watchers." And of course don't forget the old standbys of voter purges and polling location "problems" in Dem districts.