constitutional preservation. They are very close to the number of states needed

Dec2016
The November election put Republicans in full control of a record number of state legislatures around the country, a level of power that gives the party an unprecedented opportunity: change the U.S. Constitution.

Republicans already control Congress, the White House and more governors' offices than they have in nearly a century. But it's the state legislatures that hold perhaps the greatest promise for lasting change.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-republican-constitution-amendment-20161205-story.html

this is a very important issue and they are trying in many states including mine they only need a few more states!
But yes what eggs? 2018 will not be any big blow out of the house and hard to even make change in the senate imo.

Republicans are already planning for 2020, 2022 and 2024, but it doesn't seem as though Democrats even have a strategy for how to deal with 2016 yet.

That's what we're up against ie: gerrymandering - it takes at least THREE Dem votes to equal ONE Repub vote. And it's even worse in many places.

...barring some burst of non-suckage from the Republican side.

Yeah, it'll be tough, but not as tough as every future election will be if the GOP machine isn't stopped by caring voters in 2018.

running in the Senate in 2018 does not favor the Dems.

And yet we are poised for enormous wins, if such wins are still possible.

And if we don't make 2018 a big GOP rebuke, I don't think we'll get another chance.

Maybe the Republicans don't want to close it down? It is benefiting them after all.

welcome to DU

If Russia indeed hacked the 2016 election, what's to stop them from doing it again in 2018?