Nothing obvious that I can see, perhaps I’d need to download it. Which I wouldn’t. Actually there’s a whole list of similar crap, what a shite world.

Ooh didn't know this...

Washington Post wrote:

But if Democrats do take back the House in November, they can acquire and release Trump’s returns. The law allows for the tax-writing committee of either chamber to request the returns of any American from the IRS, and once they have it, they could distribute it to all the members of the chamber, after which it would almost certainly be released to the public. Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee have introduced measures to do so, but the committee’s Republicans have voted them down each time.

So if this year’s election goes the way it looks like it will, we’ll finally get to see those returns. And then we’ll know what President Trump has been so desperate to hide.

Right now I’d be fairly surprised if Dems didn’t take the house.

There’s at least one step between “I’d be surprised if” and actual optimism.

If I subscribed to that theory I think I’d genuinely be too depressed to carry on existing.

I honestly think the usa is fucked long term. The democrat "blue wave" will be a half-metre swell at best, and 2020 will see a return to GOP control, trump 2nd term c/- gerrymandered districts, another convenient war, a conservative supreme court and a stupid and/or mendacious populace in the electorates that can swing it.

Should.

Lots of things should have happened, but since 2016 it feels like there is a tactical advantage behind the disaffected, conservative, general right wing (including the insane elements). 

There was a sincere argument that a lot of right wing votes were anger from working classes fucked over by automation and the corruption of the GFC and neoliberalism in general, and they perceived the democrats as being responsible. So they voted for the GOP which just happens to have the biggest hard-on for neoliberal myths like trickle down and bootstrap nonsense.

Unless these people have learnt enough tough lessons after voting for trump, I believe there is a good chance they will see the current state of affairs as a necessary hard road before "america is great again" and probably stay the course.

The next democrat candidate is going to have to outdo obama for hype to overcome the systemic issues the usa has.

I hope I'm wrong, I really do. But like climate change, I know things are fucked for a long time.

But my point is that there will be a higher turnout on November and the Democrats have basically nowhere to go up.

Diluted Dante wrote:

But my point is that there will be a higher turnout on November and the Democrats have basically nowhere to go up.

Eh?

Yossarian wrote:

Diluted Dante wrote:

But my point is that there will be a higher turnout on November and the Democrats have basically nowhere to go up.

Eh?

I think he means the Democrats maxed out their vote in this election and didn't win. Any increase in turnout will be for the Rs

That’s what I thought, but it’s clearly nonsense which is why I was confused.

Right, so you think the Democrats are going to massively improve the number of votes in a mid term election, over the turnout in a general election? And this will also be enough to counteract the increase in Republican votes that will happen from a special election to a mid-term?

It's a plan to duplicate the work of the Air Force.

Diluted Dante wrote:

Right, so you think the Democrats are going to massively improve the number of votes in a mid term election, over the turnout in a general election? And this will also be enough to counteract the increase in Republican votes that will happen from a special election to a mid-term?

Yes and yes. Turnout for both parties should be down in a special election, the fact that there is such a disparity in how far down each party is certainly points to the chance of both of these things being true.