So this is why Republicans do a little better with each midterm and have gained control of the senate as recent as last year? I get it, a dying party keeps gaining more seats. How insightful! Look, you people better learn how to talk to white conservative men between 25-55 or you'll never have our houses back!
It's pretty simple really... the GOP base is more likely to vote. So, yes, the GOP is weaker in numbers, but because the Dems have a serious issue with getting their base out in off-years, they're in trouble. It's just a reverse of most of the 20th Century, where the GOP was the party that could get its people out in Presidential years but the Democrats had such a stranglehold on Congress.
The challenge is getting the Democratic voters out the way they do in Presidentials, not pandering to conservative white men.
Democrats don't have the numbers they used to. If they did, they'd be winning the house and senate as well. We had a two term Democrat, two term Republican, now a two term Democrat. It sounds like things have a pattern at the presidential level. Since 1994, both houses have mostly been Republican. Where is the argument that we're moving left coming from? Also, Democrats used to do better with white men than they do now in the days where they don't have either house.
Like how we won the national House vote in 2012 by over a million votes? The GOP has held the Senate
for a year; let's not act like there's some long-term dominance there. Since the beginning of the Reagan Era, Dems have held the House and the Senate for 20 out of 34 years. The House is the absolute worst metric for measuring the ideological sentiment of
the country, because it's confined to individual enclaves of a few hundred thousand voters and the process under current urban/rural divides naturally benefits Republicans.
The Democrats held both chambers of Congress from 1981-1995: are you going to argue the country wasn't moving to the right during that time?
