Republicans Have Tight Control of the House

[DonViejo]

December 19, 2016 By Taegan Goddard

The Cook Polit­ic­al Re­port notes the scope of the GOP’s con­gres­sion­al vic­tor­ies: Only 15 of the 241 House Re­pub­lic­ans won their races by less than a 10-point mar­gin, even though nearly two dozen of them rep­res­en­ted dis­tricts that Hil­lary Clin­ton car­ried.

Overall, House Re­pub­lic­ans won 51% of the na­tion­al vote, and will be rep­res­ent­ing 55% of the seats in the lower cham­ber.

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https://politicalwire.com/2016/12/19/republicans-tight-control-house/

[herding cats]

1. This is what we need to be focusing on right now.

How to weaken the Republican hold on their house seats, even though they're gerrymandered at the moment to help them easily retain power. Which is going to mean putting up Democratic candidates electable in those seats for the next cycles. If we don't make some substantial gains in 2018 and win back control by 2020, we are screwed for another full decade.

[beachbum bob]

2. there will be ongoing war between House GOP zeolots and Senate GOP

only a few issues they will be able to agree upon...eveything else will be fun to watch as they go at each other

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Actually it's even more complicated than that

Ryan has to struggle with keeping the "Freedom Caucus" in line in the House, to say nothing of getting the (typically) more cautious Senate GOPers to stay in line to get something through. If House Democrats hold the line against giving Ryan any support in the House (to compensate for Freedom Caucus) and Senate Dems hold together in the Senate, that should make things pretty miserable for them. What I envision is turning the Senate into a "Graveyard" where (bad) bills go to die.