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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey I'm a Democrat but don't count them out. They have control of most of the Statehouses that gerrymander districts so they still have the most Congressional seats. Wishful thinking OP. Sorry to say they will still be around. Hopefully, they won't win the WH, but they will win a lot of Congressional seats.[/quote]

It never ceases to amaze me when people predict the death knell of the Republican party - and I am a liberal.

When Obama became president the Democrats had an almost filibuster proof majority in the senate, a large majority in the House and I think around 30 of the governorships.

By 2010 they had lost seats in the Senate and lost control of the House and a few gubernatorial races. By 2014, the Democrats lost the Senate pretty decisively and the Republicans have the largest majority in the House that they have had in many decades. To top it off they have something like 31 of the governorships. The only significant office the Republicans don't have is the presidency. If the roles had been reversed would Democrats be saying that the party is doomed?

The standard excuse Democrats use is gerrymandering which is true but that applies mainly to the House. [/quote]

The GOP has nowhere to go but down.  The remaining "moderates" will face ever increasingly crazy primary challenges from the right as the old, white, xenophobic and racist assholes continue to die off.  Dems will pick up three to four Senate seats in 2016 and keep the White House.  GOP House members will have to explain why they accomplished virtually nothing since 2014 but vote time after time to repeal the ACA.  They too will face primary challengers who will attack them for being coopted by DC and failing to keep election year promises like repealing the ACA.  Throw in the inability to block the Iran deal (remember that hoopla) and gay marriage and Planned Parenthood and we'll some interesting and extremely ugly circular firing squad political races.  The times they are a changin.  [/quote]

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