07-24-2018, 07:14 PM
(07-24-2018, 02:34 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(07-24-2018, 12:27 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Comment: this suggests a Blue Wave in 2018.
I'd say that it more likely suggests a Purple Wave in 2018.
We have yet to see how the Senate will trend, but so far these numbers are strong enough to offset the effect of gerrymandering in the House.
Republicans gerrymandered the House, allowing the rise of extremists that voters eventually tire of. Republicans are able to elect Representatives suitable for R+30 districts in R_4 districts; along comes a Democrat suited to a D+5 district and he is closer to the political culture of that district.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.