It means nothing if a particular Democrat won't vote for Pelosi, or might be better on a few issues than a moderate Republican. They are still going to vote to put Elijah Cummings as head of the House Oversight Committee

That's very true but I also won't be tearing up if Carlos Curbelo loses his congressional seat. We have limited resources and not all Republican incumbents can be saved.

Curbelo has a chance to win

Blum and Rothfus, while better on the issues are gonners

You will be if he loses by a couple votes and his race decides control of the house. Every single incumbent matters.

Insofar as committee control is concerned, yes.

But from a legislative point of view, no.

At least most pieces of legislation I care about.

Is it possible that the increased democrat primary turnout is due to the neoliberal vs progressive fight, whereas republicans have been consistently electing the most Trumpian candidate? I could see a lot of the hard-liners who vote in a general not voting in the primary until now.

Curbelo is a fine congressman most of the time, when you take it to mind what the sheer partisanship of his district will allow for

+ certain Republicans poison the Republican well and serve to preserve Republican establishmentarianism.

A Trojan horse.

tbh, I'm not hopeful for legislation this term

we can barely pass anything as is

and we are going to lose some seats

I would rather have Republican establishmentarian than socialism, wouldn’t you?

It all depends on the margin.

this election is about preventing Republicans from losing Committee control in the House, and maintaining enough control in the Senate to survive 2020 losses and to keep appointing justices

And personally, both of them are equally disgusting.

If we have a solid lead in the senate and maybe 224-226 house seats then I think we can get the wall and repeal obongo care.

No they aren’t, there’s a clear difference. They are far from equivalent

Can you say that while you have Ron Paul as your dp?

If we lose here then our next chance will be 2020-2022 where republicans win back the house and presumably hold the Senate.

They both present problems of similar gravity in different areas.

@[Lex] Yes. I hate both, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have a clear favorite week it comes to picking which one I would rather have

McCain single handily ruined Trump's first two years though.

^

McCain is an example of one of these gentlemen.

I'll be fighting tooth and nail for a Republican House and Senate but I won't lie and saying I don't have preferences.

Not all congressmen are born equal.

And I'll always support a Republican over a Democrat, some far more reluctantly than others however.

Honestly I don’t see a way in which we can retain the house. It just isn’t going to happen. The Dems already are already halfway there by means of auto gains like Comstock, LoBiondo, Blum, Paulsen, and Coffman’s districts

It’s borderline Safe D

and many of the Republicans who have a chance to survive, like Cuberlo, Hurd, Dunham, Valadao are moderates - so even if we hold the House, I'm not sure we get major legislation passed

the time for that, I think is 2020 - hope Trump coattails bring in enough new Republicans

Time is ticking, gentlemen.

That demographic clock.

The demographic clock can work in our advantage if we play our cards white. If republican vs democrat explicitly becomes whites vs everyone else then we can expect to break new ground up North. R vs D will never die, but the parties themselves are going to change immensely in the next 50 years.

play our cards right* lol

That's very true but we'll have to sweep ALL of them to compensate for Texas, Florida, Arizona, soon Georgia, North Carolina and so on.

I don't even know how you do that.