I really think the left thought they had farmed enough votes to secure at least the White House from now on. I think most people thought that, too. The 47% that Romney referred to during his campaign sure seemed solid.

Trump scared the shite out of people in the middle and on the right and managed to get people to go to the polls who would have had no interest in voting had he not garnered the Republican nomination. I think he was the only candidate that could beat Clinton and the DNC machine.

Trump may still turn out to be the last Republican president unless the slim majority who elected him manage to hold sway over the deep red states and keep control of the blue states they converted for this past election. Of course, I'm talking about Electoral College votes. The absolute majority voted for Clinton and represent the left's power.

That body of voters is frothing at the mouth and will rise en masse in 2018. Unless the GOP manages to make some very positive changes in the average American's life by then, it could be a blood bath for Republicans.

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Posted by Sunbeam

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Posted on 3/21/17 at 9:33 pm to Kentucker

Oh no, the GOP will probably pick up seats in the midterm, barring a catastrophic recession.

The next Presidential election will be very interesting however.

But it is awful hard to beat a sitting President.

The most important thing to watch in the next elections is whether Congress becomes friendlier to Trump's agenda.

Because right now guys like Paul Ryan, Miss Lindsay Graham, and John McCain are as much against him as Pelosi, Schumer, and Elizabeth Warren.

Not sure when Graham's next primary is, and SC's politics is rigged seven ways from Sunday, but it would be a glorious day if he got booted and sent to a townhouse in DC to live out his days lobbying like the Huckleberry he is.

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