Would establishment Repugs who absolutely loath anything Obama and the Dems do or would would do, vote for Shillary just to spite Donald?
Repugs know they can't win the WH, even if they cause riots and get Bishop Gekko winning a contested convention. So they and the VRWC/ALEC/1% are concentrating on Congressional, state, local elections.
The travesty of Republican gerrymandering: Why Donald Trump’s nomination should — but probably won’t — cost the GOP its congressional majority
If they win the White House in 2016, Democrats have another problem: Republicans control both the House and the Senate. Indeed, House Republicans have their largest majority since 1928 – 247 seats to 188. The GOP’s historic influence in both chambers of Congress has rendered the country ungovernable.
When the Tea Party movement exploded in 2009, dozens of right-wing nihilists descended on Congress with one goal: obstructionism. As a result, the Republican death-grip on the nation’s legislative branch has been near-total.
“Democrats have for the past year discussed the GOP’s 30-seat majority as a long-term problem, solvable only by shrinking it over successive elections. But Trump’s remarkable rise in the GOP presidential race, and the backlash he has already provoked among the broader electorate, has suddenly raised the prospect of a large November wave against Trump and the Republicans who would share the ballot with him.”
The panic is spreading far and wide within the Republican Party.
So toxic is Trump that his presence at the top of the ticket puts scores of down-ballot races into play.
Flipping 30 seats is a tall task, but without Trump it would be utterly unthinkable – with him it’s a possibility.
“High numbers of independent voters, socially moderate voters, millennials and minority voters” will be up for grabs, said DCCC Chairman Ben Ray Lujan. And even with an extremist candidate like Ted Cruz (the most likely alternative to Trump) leading the ticket, the prospects are scarcely better.
Last Friday, the Cook Political Report downgraded the GOP’s chances in 10 congressional districts.
Overall, Cook rates 31 Republican seats as at risk – that’s not nearly enough if the Democrats want to retake the House, but it’s far more sanguine than anyone expected a year ago.
Ultimately, though, the prospects of transforming the balance of power in Congress remain vanishingly slim, even against the backdrop of a Trump candidacy.
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/22/the_...onal_majority/
iow, with Repugs controlling the House, and maybe the Senate, America remains ed and un able.
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