They never intend to be out of power.
Yeah, funny thing about that: no group in power ever thinks they’ll be out. But they ALWAYS are-—even the Soviets found that out.
That's my take. Everyone's doing the same old chatter, "Oh they've really done it now", "Lame duck","The people have awakened". and so on.
But the game has changed since those types of consequences applied. Races that should be GOP end up in squeakers and are pulled out by Dems (VA most recent). We can't trust polls pre-election, too many stated libs running them, can't depend on the media, not even poll-watchers (GOP thrown out in Philly 2012) so how can we win?
I've been saying for a while that the Dems were too cocky about 2014, saying "Let's just wait and see what the people say". They'll cheat, the media will get all breathless about the horse races yet call elections hours before they're actually over, and the Democrats will stay in power.