For Trump Foes, Democratic Gains May Remain Elusive in 2018

ABC News ^ | February 5, 2017

[SMGFan]

Passionate protests against Donald Trump's presidency have swelled the ranks of Democratic activists, but their new enthusiasm faces a hard reality: Republicans remain well-positioned to retain their grip on power in the 2018 elections. While Republicans hold only a slim majority in the U.S. Senate, Democrats occupy most of the seats up for election in two years. That means they must play defense against Republicans, especially in 10 states that Trump won. In the U.S. House, Republicans will be aided by favorable district boundaries that were drawn to maintain GOP political dominance. In some cases, the congressional districts were gerrymandered to pack high numbers of Democratic voters into just a few districts as a way to create a greater number of Republican-leaning seats.

[SMGFan]

great news

[Paladin2]

The 6 year term for the Senate is genius - though at least half of Senators should be appointed by State Legislatures as their representatives.

[bigbob]

Elusive in the sense of “further losses”

[ISTHISONETAKEN]

Would love nothing more than after 2 years of pissing and moaning by the democrats and all the paid protesters rioting every week for more free stuff to see them lose several more seats in both houses - better yet, even get a 60 vote super majority (and maybe another 2-4 SC seats to boot).

[scooby321]

Maybe not with Ryan and McConnell

[Liz]

hat tip Travis McGee

[Paladin2]

Those two are likely getting their heads right with daily visits from K Street.

[Repeal The 17th]

33 Senators up for reelection in 2018
State	Incumbent	Party	Intent	2016 Presidential
California	Dianne Feinstein	Democratic	Unknown	CLINTON
Connecticut	Chris Murphy	Democratic	Running	CLINTON
Delaware	Tom Carper	Democratic	Unknown	CLINTON
Florida	Bill Nelson	Democratic	Running	TRUMP
Hawaii	Mazie Hirono	Democratic	Running	CLINTON
Indiana	Joe Donnelly	Democratic	Running	TRUMP
Maryland	Ben Cardin	Democratic	Unknown	CLINTON
Massachusetts	Elizabeth Warren	Democratic	Running	CLINTON
Michigan	Debbie Stabenow	Democratic	Unknown	TRUMP
Minnesota	Amy Klobuchar	Democratic	Running	CLINTON
Missouri	Claire McCaskill	Democratic	Running	TRUMP
Montana	Jon Tester	Democratic	Running	TRUMP
New Jersey	Bob Menendez	Democratic	Unknown	CLINTON
New Mexico	Martin Heinrich	Democratic	Running	CLINTON
New York	Kirsten Gillibrand	Democratic	Running	CLINTON
North Dakota	Heidi Heitkamp	Democratic	Unknown	TRUMP
Ohio	Sherrod Brown	Democratic	Running	TRUMP
Pennsylvania	Bob Casey, Jr.	Democratic	Running	TRUMP
Rhode Island	Sheldon Whitehouse	Democratic	Running	CLINTON
Virginia	Tim Kaine	Democratic	Running	CLINTON
Washington	Maria Cantwell	Democratic	Unknown	CLINTON
West Virginia	Joe Manchin	Democratic	Running	TRUMP
Wisconsin	Tammy Baldwin	Democratic	Running	TRUMP
Maine	Angus King	Independent	Running	split
Vermont	Bernie Sanders	Independent	Running	CLINTON
Arizona	Jeff Flake	Republican	Unknown	TRUMP
Mississippi	Roger Wicker	Republican	Unknown	TRUMP
Nebraska	Deb Fischer	Republican	Unknown	TRUMP
Nevada	Dean Heller	Republican	Running	CLINTON
Tennessee	Bob Corker	Republican	Unknown	TRUMP
Texas	Ted Cruz	Republican	Running	TRUMP
Utah	Orrin Hatch	Republican	Unknown	TRUMP
Wyoming	John Barrasso	Republican	Unknown	TRUMP

 

[jmaroneps37]

And well well beyond 2018.

[jmaroneps37]

And well well beyond 2018.

[gibsonguy]

And I see a couple of notorious rinos on this list. It is at least as important to get rid of these. I am looking at you Flake you backstabbing moron.

[9YearLurker]

Which means Trump should be able to appoint exclusively conservative SC (and other) judges through his term and be able to get them seated.

[Sicvee]

Previous Democrat gerrymanders packed the minorities into districts that guaranteed minority safe seats. Now they are blaming Republicans who were happy to comply with their wishes.

[af_vet_1981]

Maybe not with Ryan and McConnell

False; the only thing to harm the Republican majorities is if the Trump voters stay home and betray the country (unlikely) in conjunction with the reluctant Trump voters deciding they made a mistake and need a Democrat Congress to reign him in (unlikely if he succeeds with the economy and national security).

[COBOL2Java]

Those two are likely getting their heads right with daily visits from K Street.

And their Overlord

[Gay State Conservative]

About two thirds of the Senate seats that are up next year are Rat seats...and about half of *them* are seats in states that DJT won *easily*.

[wjcsux]

I have noticed that Manchin is falling in line for POTUS policies.

[catnipman]

It’s not going to help the Dems one damn bit if they keep up with these daily riots, burnings and demonstrations for two more years, and I’m not talking just about their Congressional delegation either.

Not to mention if they appoint Keith Ellison and a whole cadre of anti-white Dem leadership to overtly complete the process of driving white people out of the party, their losses will be staggering.

[gibsonguy]

If they put Keith in you watch how the MSM cleans up his image you won’t even think it’s the same person.

[Impy]

The Senate map really couldn’t be better (thanks to getting reamed on this cycle in 2000, 2006, and 2012), we’re gonna gain seats there, it’s to the point that even though they only need 3 seats they admit they have a better chance of winning the House. And they have no chance of winning the House, I don’t even see how they could make a major gain there.

Governorships are more concerning in 2018. We gotta make sure we hold/take key states to control redistricting.

Our voters are more likely to turn out in midterms than rat voters (though they’re gonna try, that’s why the Trump hate is out of control to motivate scum to vote) and that doesn’t need to change under a Republican President, especially in a first term midterm. The biggest factor in the 2006 rat win was the unpopular war.