Taking back the House will be harder than Democrats think

Democrats are feeling cheery at the prospect that this fall will bring an end to the power outage they suffered in 2016 and the near-irrelevance they have endured since.

Conditions look particularly good for taking back the House. Off-year elections in a president’s first term nearly always cost his party some seats, and President Trump’s historically low approval ratings are an especially heavy weight for Republicans. …

So what could go wrong for Democrats in 2018?

Plenty, actually. CONT.

Karen Tumulty, Washington Post