Republicans sweep the election

[dorchadas]

I admit, the main reason I'm taking this in stride is because I have an incredibly low opinion of the average person--I mean, the American electorate apparently decided that it wanted minimum wage increases, continued abortion protections, legalized marijuana, and that the Republicans were the best people to provide these things--and I'm already

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[q99]

The reason I'm taking it in stride is because it was largely a structural win, they had a big advantage going in, and an even *bigger* disadvantage two years from now, and they are utterly incompetent to take advantage of their gains, thinking it'll let them do anything they want.

[dorchadas]

Well, there is all that voter suppression to worry about. They have two more years to get those laws in place and suppress turnout enough.

They will need to suppress it a lot more in 2016 than they did in 2014, that's true.

[q99]

Oh, definitely, but I don't think they can do enough to make that fly. And hopefully they'll start getting bit for trying.