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Originally Posted by DudeImBetter
Considering the 3 outer we just lost to get Trump elected I think anyone paying attention won't be counting hatched chickens anymore.
Don't count on it. My buddy who assured me before the election that I had nothing to worry about as I was freaking out that 80/20 or 70/30 was a MAJOR risk of exactly what we're going through, still assures me that I have nothing to worry about in 2018.
"You've gotta relax, the Democrats will win in 2018."
He logically knows the House is gerrymandered and the Senate sets up for the GOP, but he just buys into this, "The out of power party always flips it in the midterms and everyone hates Trump," narrative.
Most of us on this forum fall into a very unique subset of American people. Imagine a Venn Diagram with the intersection of three circles: Significantly above average intelligence, closely follows politics, understands probabilities.
We're in that intersection; very few people are. I'm not trying to make us out to be superhuman geniuses, but that specific combination has to be rare.