In 2018, Democrats will need to flip 24 seats to retake control of the House of Representatives. Anything can happen in a year but, as it stands, it looks like that's an extremely tall order. The odds are Republicans will retain control.
Many Democrats are starting to think that's directly attributable to Nancy Pelosi - a woman whose own state is starting to think she's not liberal enough, while the rest of the country thinks she's a complete leftist crackpot. She is, like her party itself, caught in the dichotomy between the desires of the far-left Democrat base, and the increasing inability of the party to win anywhere other than New York and California.
Pelosi presided over the ObamaCare debacle - something that Dems know (but won't admit) is hurting them - and her party's long, subsequent, track record of failure. Then, earlier this year, she announced that taking the House in 2018 wasn't that big of a deal.
All of this has caused many on the left to demand Pelosi relinquish her leadership role. They're looking for someone, anyone really, who isn't a drag on the party nationwide. Considering how many GOP campaign ads Pelosi appears in, that's probably a good instinct.
Pelosi Dodges On Whether Dems Can Win House in 2018, Says Question is 'So Unimportant'
We've heard rumblings of this for a couple of months. ...But you know it's starting to hit critical mass when an NBC News reporter brings it up on the left's own propaganda network, MSNBC.
"The dam," he says, "is breaking."
Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your perspective) the Dems bench is paper thin and anyone who the base would support in Pelosi's role will almost certainly have the exact same negative impact.
...Because they still don't get it.
MSNBC’s Alex Seitz-Wald: The Dam Is Breaking On Democrats’ Support For Nancy Pelosi
