JUST IN: America Stunned After Polls Conclusively Show CONGRESS Going Blue In 2016

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To God's ears...

According to a new poll results put out by NBC News/Wall Street Journal, the majority of American’s that are registered to vote plan to vote in favor of the Democratic party leading Congress.

The Republicans have controlled both the House and the Senate from the 2014 mid-term elections on. During that time they’ve effectively blocked several common sense bills from passing. Everyone would like to blame the president in office for things not getting done but in reality, it’s Congress, the House of Representatives and the Senate that wield the majority of the control.

Since taking control of the House and the Senate Republicans have used their majority to block anything proposed by Democrats, for the most part. There is no bipartisan effort and hasn’t been for quite some time. That’s why it’s so important that people get out and vote this election season.

In a national poll of registered voters that was just released by NBC News/Wall Street Journal the majority of American’s polled want the Democratic party to take back the House and the Senate.

There’s still a good 43 percent of those polled that say they want the Republicans to maintain control over Congress after everyone votes in November but 47 percent said that they would like to see Democrats retake both the House and Senate for the first time since 2010, when the tea party helped to propel the GOP towards the majority. /snip http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/08/05/just-in-america-stunned-after-polls-conclusively-show-congress-going-blue-in-2016/

It's a few days old but I like the inference.

[Hulk]

1. Easier said than done...

The Senate will most probably go Democrat...by a slim margin...which blows my mind.

The House, on the other hand, is going to most likely stay in ryan's control, and they will remain a dizzy bunch of idiots until 2018, when we can oust more of the teabagger cancer from our government.

I'm hoping our district will go Democrat, but even my wife, who is a very low information voter, will cast her vote for the idiot repuKKKe, jamie herrera butler, because "she has job fairs", and that's what makes a difference to my unemployed wife. The fact that SHE doesn't have shit...but rather she attaches her name to job fairs and rides the coat tail is of little consequence to my wife, and probably thousands of other low info voters. Frustrating....

[LoverOfLiberty]

25. Unfortunately the only way to get a Republican out of WA-03

seems to be that they have to give up the seat on their own accord.

By the way, her name is Beutler, not Butler.

Here's hoping you can convince your wife to vote D.

[yeoman6987]

32. 2018 is our turn to defend 30 seats in the senate

It should be easy will Hillary as president for two years getting things done.

[cali]

2. I think democrats will take back the Senate but in reality it's virtually impossible to take back

the House this cycle. If we pick up 10-15 seats, that will be great.

[tonyt53]

28. Going to have to take a Dem appointed majority on the SCOTUS and the 2020 census to swap the House.

Too many gerrymandered congressional districts.

[yeoman6987]

33. The statehouse determine districts

Not sure why congress is mentioned. We have to switch out 31 republican governors and 30 state congresses to fix gerrymandering.

[CobaltBlue]

3. This is why the margin in the U.S. Popular Vote is important

If you want the U.S. House, in addition to the U.S. Senate, to flip Democratic … you will want a landslide of at least +10 in the U.S. Popular Vote. (The more the merrier.)

[cali]

4. The redistricting and jerrymandering make taking back the house nearly impossible

even with a landslide. People are weird. No matter how unpopular the House is, voters consistently approve of their own reps.

[uponit7771]

10. Even if they disapprove the gerrymandering makes it damn near impossible. Dems had > 1 million more

... votes for congress in 2012 IINM and still lost the house because of gerrymandering.

Gerrymandering is the poison that allows the GOP to flip the bird at the country

[cali]

11. yep. What else is there to say- except that "poison" is spot on.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. What else? Win state Legislatures & kill gerrymandering permanently with commissions.

How about a nation-wide Districting Act like the Voter Rights Act that does it everywhere?

[cali]

14. Those are great suggestions, but I have a hard time imagining that happening

in all too many states. Still worth fighting for, of course.

[Hortensis]

30. Larry Sabato did not consider it impossible,

merely unlikely. Just a couple days ago, discussing Hillary's pulling ahead in polls in red Arizona and Georgia he said IF the lead held through August it might indicate the House was in play. He'll be looking at this poll of course.

[C Moon]

5. "During that time they’ve effectively blocked several common sense bills from passing."

Their only focus was to do NOTHING until President Obama was out of office.
Well, President Obama will be out office soon...and it appears the GOP will be too.
Good fucking riddance, GOPstoppers.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. I'd love to see us take back the House, but it's a longshot at best.

[Stevepol]

7. It won't happen because of the voting machines.

Everybody will have a different reason that the polls (even the unadjusted exit polls) were not right but only a few will want to be whiners and point out that all the close races are going Repub as always. Dems will blame the candidates (didn't press the right issues, didn't do this or that) or some issue that comes up close to election time.

Of course it's either illegal in a given state to even recount the votes BY HAND (FL) or it's just never done (MA e.g.), so it's impossible in the US to know what the real result is. Meanwhile the real criminals, ES&S, etc., live to steal another election.

[Orrex]

12. And because of gerrymandering

The House is safely Republican, even if a majority want them out.

[Hortensis]

31. Gerrymandering makes it "safe" under normal

conditions. We may have left normal conditions behind when we passed through the far side of the galaxy.

[Recursion]

8. Generic ballots don't translate to votes, particularly in the House

There are a lot of people who think the bums need to be thrown out, but don't include their own bum in that.

[uponit7771]

9. Doesn't matter, democrats can get 1.3 million more voters for house & STILL LOSE it because of...

.... gerrymandering.

That's how poisonous gerrymandering is, democrats can get more than a million MORE votes for the house and because the way the districts in the states were DIGITALLY DRAWN to dilute the power of brown, blacks, Asians and native Americans republicans will keep control off the house... the most powerful part of the government BY DESIGN


Gerrymandering should be outlawed by both parties

[lindysalsagal]

15. Gerrymandering keeps it out of our reach

Hopefully the gop loss will be so staggeringly brutal that they might become more compliant for HRC. But then again, they don't take loss well....

[Cresent City Kid]

23. Gerrymandering should be done with a straight edge

The lesson: don't stay home in mid-terms that fall in a census year. 2010 gave us 6 years of Obama being hamstrung.

[uponit7771]

24. +1

[Buckeye_Democrat]

16. People might say that in a GENERIC way

... but then vote for their particular Republican representative anyway.

[Vinca]

17. Which begs the question: how do you pull the lever for Louie Gohmert?

[Horse with no Name]

18. I would rather gargle with razor blades

While simultaneously drinking battery acid while lounging in a pool of nuclear waste.

[Vinca]

21. ROFL - that about sums it up.

[Gothmog]

19. Trump has negative coat tails

[Wounded Bear]

20. I'll believe it when I see it...

Unlikely we flip the House. I'm in a blue district in a blue state, and my blue senator is up for re-election, and she's up double digits.

Hope to see some progress in red areas.

[yellowcanine]

22. National party preference not a very good predictor of who controls Congress.

Gerrymandering makes sure of that.

[Thinkingabout]

26. It would be an ideal situation, it did not become republican overnight and will

Take lots of work to get a Democratic congress.

[riversedge]

27. Republicans gerrymandered WI.

[sellitman]

29. Cannot be

They all will tell you this country has turned right and is going. Further right as i type out this reply.