2018 Election Could Be A Free For All Brawl Like We Have Never Seen.

[TheMastersNemesis]

Elections will get uglier and uglier and uglier and the next one will likely set a new record for viciousness. Mix gun control and it could be truly incendiary. It could be like a perfect storm.

[shanti]

1. And this is common

in lots of other countries. It's no accident.

[Squinch]

2. If Democrats learn anything from the last election, it COULD be a case of Democrats

lining up behind a reasonable candidate (that maybe doesn't make us excited, that maybe isn't entirely perfect to every single one of us, that maybe disagrees with us on one or two issues, that maybe gets money from a corporation) and making a stand for mail-in paper ballots, hand counted. The way they do in Oregon.

[Hortensis]

3. Yes. And we will be a formidable force in 2018 now that

so many eyes are opened. Last week an isolated special election for the state legislature here in Florida broke all previous records for turnout and dumped the Republican incumbent in favor of the Democratic candidate.

The right's battle to keep power is going to be ferocious, though, and will without doubt include criminal actions and massive vote theft/suppression, but even more, extremely sophisticated legal operations that started work on 2018 even before 2016.

The results of the 2018 and 2020 STATE LEGISLATURE races will be used in the 2020 census for defining political districts. This is huge, of course! The right intends to hold and build on their massive census victories from their operations in 2010.

Florida's governor, Rick Scott is refusing to schedule any more special elections. Also Scott Walker in WI.

COUNTDOWN TO MIDTERMS: 259 days

[OnDoutside]

4. Could ?