ny mag:The Democrats Have Two Choices Now: Gridlock or Annihilation

[LiberalElite]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/democrats-have-2-choices-gridlock-or-disaster.html?mid=google&google_editors_picks=true

"A cardinal fact of American politics that has emerged during the Obama years is that demographic forces are slowly and inexorably driving the electorate leftward. But the Republican Party has its own corresponding advantages. Its voters turn out for elections reliably, not just in spasms of quadrennial excitement. They are dispersed efficiently in rural and exurban House districts, and reside disproportionately in small states that have more per capita voting power in the Senate. All these things give the Republican coalition, even as it remains unable to muster a presidential majority, unassailable control of Congress.

[Cal33]

1. It does look that way -- fight or die.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Nauseating

And probably true. Mostly because of stuff like this, which was noted in the article:

Nationwide, just 40% of Americans can correctly identify the partisan balance in both the House of Representatives and the Senate (that Republicans have the majority in the former, and Democrats in the latter). The remaining six-in-ten know only one (33%) or neither (28%) of those facts.

http://www.people-press.org/2014/06/26/section-10-political-participation-interest-and-knowledge/

Add unlimited funds for "educating" the public and that's a recipe for getting away with murder, which the GOP and their candidates do regularly.