Wash Park Prophet

How will the balance of power be in the U.S. federal government as a result of this year's recent midterm elections?
The U.S. Senate
The Midterm Election Results

The Results
Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican won the runoff election for the U.S. Senate held today in Mississippi.
The results in the runoff election for U.S. Senate in Mississippi:

What do Democrats need to do to win in the 2020 election and beyond?
Policy
* Show off the virtues of the Democratic agenda in state houses we control, rather than insisting on trying to show that Democrats can get something done primarily in Congress, where only legislation acceptable to Donald Trump and hard line Republicans...

Even if you have independent commissions trying to be fair in how they draw districts, any given set of districts can be systemically biased in favor of one party or another. To get beyond that, a bigger reform is needed.
One such reform, which would make sense to introduce as a proposed constitutional amendment by initiative, at the state legislative election level, probably at first, only for the state house where every member faces the voters every two years, would...