Republican Party the Strongest It’s Been in 80 Years

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Real Clear Politics:

In 2014, we put together an index to measure the electoral strength of the parties. Rather than focusing on the presidency, we broke partisan control into five categories: presidential, Senate, House, governorships, and state legislatures. We have updated our index using the mostly complete data for the 2016 elections and can conclude that the GOP is in the strongest position it has been since 1928. In many sub-categories, it is near an all-time high.

The following four paragraphs, taken verbatim from the previously linked article, describe our methodology:

“Our index is the sum of five parts: presidential performance, House performance, Senate performance, gubernatorial performance and state legislative performance. The first is measured by the party’s performance in the previous presidential popular vote. (In this, and all other measurements, third parties are excluded.)

“House performance is the average of the popular vote for the House and the average of the share of the House won by the party. This helps mitigate the effects of gerrymandering. Senate performance is the share of the Senate held by the party.

“Gubernatorial performance is the party’s share of governorships (again, with third party candidates excluded). We do not weight for population, for reasons explored further below. For state legislatures, we average four numbers: the share of state Houses and state Senates held by each party along with the share of state House seats and state Senate seats held by each party.

“This gives us five metrics, all of which run on a scale from 0 to 100. Adding them together gives us a scale from zero to 500. We then subtract 250 from the total. All this does is assign a score of zero to a situation where the parties are evenly matched, rather than 250. A positive score then means that the Republican Party is stronger while a negative score means the Democratic Party is stronger.”

Let’s walk the through the sub-scores, one by one. In the state legislatures, Republicans modestly improved their positioning from the already strong position they had achieved in 2014. Their sub-score is 63.2 (again, on a scale of zero to 100). If we exclude the Reconstruction period, the Republican Party has achieved a higher score in the state legislatures in three elections: 1894 (64.7), 1904 (64.6), and 1920 (66.5).

Likewise, in the governorships, the GOP emerged from 2016 stronger than it was after 2014. This is unsurprising, since Democrats were reduced to just 16 governorships. The GOP’s sub-score of 67.3 was  surpassed only in 1920 (70.8) and during the late Civil War and early Reconstruction period (1864, 1866, and 1868).

The House, Senate and presidential charts pretty much speak for themselves:

If we put everything together in our final index, the GOP has a Trende-Byler score of 36.0, the highest score for the GOP since 1928 (when it scored a staggering 51.8). You can see the trend line here:

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If the Republicans do what the Democrats did with so much power and spread their ideology instead of promoting the growth of the economy and strengthening our security, they will do no better than the Democrats did in the next election.

I wouldn’t worry too much. The republicans will do what they’ve always done when they have an upper hand in government—make as much money as possible before people realize what they’re up to. Who needs lobbyists as middlemen when business has actually taken over the government?

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In Indiana, we’ve already got this jackass hoping to totally ban abortion access with no exceptions. A rape victim would be compelled by Indiana law to give birth to their rapist’s child; an incest victim would be compelled to continue the resultant pregnancy. If the victim does otherwise, she becomes a criminal. This twit wouldn’t even make exceptions when the mother’s life is at risk.

Legal experts said such a ban would be found unconstitutional under Roe v. Wade, but pro-life groups hope to have a chance if President-Elect Donald Trump makes changes to the Supreme Court by appointing pro-life Justices.

Yay, Donald. Yay, GOP.

@Greg:

I wouldn’t worry too much. The republicans will do what they’ve always done when they have an upper hand in government—make as much money as possible before people realize what they’re up to.

Oh, you mean that is BAD, unless the Clinton’s are doing it? I guess so, since you voted for exactly that while opposing a candidate that promises to reverse that activity.

You just keep shoveling manure off the wagon, getting angrier with every shovelful, never considering where the stink is actually coming from. Let me know when a Clinton investigation turns up compelling evidence of any of the right’s bullshit accusations that crimes have been committed.

You might want to take a break and pay some attention to what the Trump administration is going to look like. You could start by looking into possible conflicts of interest.

@Greg: Well, the investigations turned up perjury, intentional and gross neglect in handling classified information, lying about providing security to Benghazi and the fact that it was a terrorist attack, she lied about the server, lied about how many devices she used, lied about everything that comes out of her mouth.

I have paid attention to what Trump is doing. He appears to be putting together a great team, one based on capability instead of ideology.

No thanks to the GOPe traitors who supported Hillary.