How the GOP can avoid the historic loss of seats in midterm election

By Rick Moran
Donald Trump has upended traditional politics, which is unsettling to pollsters and other experts who depend on predictability in their prognostications. This piece by Nathan L. Gonzales, editor and publisher of Inside Elections, highlights the fact that while traditional analysis shows Republicans in some trouble for 2018, there is a chance that Trump's distance from the Republican Party could help the GOP minimize losses.......... More

My Take - Interesting analysis.  I agree there will be retirements for multiple reasons and one of them is many of these go along to get along Republicans know they won't be nominated by their party.  This "anger" issue the Democrats are touting isn't happening except for the far left - and they're always angry - and they're not ever going to vote Republican.  If they resurrected Adolph Hitler and ran him as President, they'd vote for him rather than a Republican, so it really doesn't matter if their base is angry because that's derigueur for a Democrat. 

I agree the Republicans will hold the Congress in 2018, but I think the numbers are going to change dramatically.  The next batch of Republicans entering Congress are going to become far more conservative, they will help swell the ranks of those conservatives already there, and they're going to be less willing to compromise. Real conservatives believe this is a do or die struggle for the nation, so they're not the least bit concerned about being popular or appeasing the left.  They hate the media, they're not afraid of the media, and will not back away to avoid being attacked by them.  I think this is going to be one of the most important mid-terms in American history.