They're echo chambers (no matter the affiliation). You're not getting anyone to change their minds, you're just talking to people who were already gonna vote for that party, no matter what.

What's the point?

Just saw a news bit about Trump and Obama holding rallies... and ain't nobody going to either except the people who support that particular party, unless they go to start trouble.

cheering crowds make good TV

Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime make for even better TV. 😰

That way I do not have to watch Political rallies.

wicked smaht

Obama is stumping in that we’ll known swing state Illinois.

GimmeFugginbreak

I would love to claim to be wicked smaht, I cheated and just looked it up on the world wide web. 🇨🇮

It’s about getting your own folks jacked up and motivated to vote. That’s what wins, no one changes their minds anymore. That’s weakness.

I might.

They are a SAD SAD WASTE of U.S. TAXPAYER MONIES....

AIR FORCE ONE FLIGHTS AND ADVANCE Secret Service teams cost booooo-kooooo B.U.C.K.S. $$$$$
MILLIONS of dollars ...wasted

^^Yeaup.

I change my mind all the time :P

Some may call it indecision, I call it excessive reading material.

Hope springs eternal ! =d>

I might not.

might be a decent place to find someone of the opposite sex, if you happen to be looking...

I get the feeling that the Dems let the momentum peak too early and have missed the opportunity to make inroads on the federal level.
Nothing really to get people off the couch to go pull a lever.

I can't say I have heard a clear, focused message, I can't say I'm aware of up and coming superstars among their ranks.

I'm thinking the GOP holds on. It might be what the Dems need in order to do well in two years.

At this point, what difference does it make?


Republican House; Republican Senate; Republican White House....and we have what meaningful legislation?
Just imagine how ineffective Congress will be with the north and south ends of the Capitol going different directions.

well, when you say it that way...!

I'd be more interested in what they need in order to do poorly in two years ...

pretty much what they've offered up the last two years.

Chances are this time or next they will make headway, even without offering up The Second Coming (can't believe I said that!) it's hard for any politically philosophy shifts to last more than one or two terms in these times.

There does seem to be big voter turnout today.

voter turnout was extremely high for a mid-term...that alone is a positive sign for Dems, who out-number GOP by a lot...when turn-out is high, Dems tend to do better...but although Dems cast about 20% more votes over-all than the GOP, they lost a few Senate seats...

these elections seem to have shined a spotlight on the political division in our country...both sides won enough to claim a semblance of victory...

this election cycle also illustrates the power of the electoral system that we use for national elections to magnify the influence of a homogenous geographic minority of our population...the Senate elections show that a united minority of the population concentrated in a large number of less populated states (rural) who possessed historic control to determine voting districts can wield more political power than a large majority situated in densely populated and fewer states...agriculture is still a big foundation of American strength, so maybe they should have larger voices...