Quote (thesnipa @ Aug 23 2016 04:53am)
unless the seats swap, as they are fairly weak seats. The majority is slipping away this election and will be fairly slim. That said most dont like HRC, its a point against both Trump and Clinton.
It's interesting, there's actually a bit of variance on what kind of Congress we could get in January, especially relative to how much there should be (given how much gerrymandering the GOP pulled off post-2010).
No matter what, Ryan will be losing allies from blue states (NY/MN/CA/FL especially) who are the only Republicans in years past who could be counted on to raise the debt ceiling, keep the government funded, take a "yes" vote on anything even half-sensible. Even if the GOP can narrowly hold onto their majority the caucus is going to be made up almost entirely of people from blood-red turf of the "House Freedom Caucus" variety, the people who forced Boehner to retire and who shut the government down for no reason. Those people make Ryan miserable. If given the choice between a 1-seat majority and 1-seat minority, he might honestly prefer the minority.