[Magdalen] elections

[Roger Stokes]

On 18/05/2016 18:46, M J _Mike_ Logsdon wrote:
>>>> Probably not over so much as a change of pace and style.  Some of those
> elected will not be focused on sharing in effective government while
> some will be looking ahead to 2018 and 2020.<<<
>
> Considering the potential down-ticket damage Trump is already fomenting, hopes rise every day that the Dems will at least win back the Senate, if not to a filibuster-proof level, at least to a majority -- like the GOP currently has there.  There's even talk of significant gains in the House, but with a much larger GOP majority there, down-ticket damage would have to be truly catastrophic (for which hope springs eternally blue ;-)

House candidates also have more homogenous districts than an entire 
state offers so they can be more focused on the cons=cerns of a tighter 
demography rather than needing a broad appeal.  2010 does not help 
either as state legislatures have redistricted to their own (majority of 
them are Republican controlled) advantage.

Roger