The heaping pile of shit that is the GOP tax bill has the Democrats leading by more than 12 points (49.6% to 37.4%) at the time of this writing in the standard "Will you vote for a Democrat or Republican in the next Congressional election?" poll - at least according to the average complied by Five Thirty Eight:
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-generic-ballot-polls/CNN's latest poll has the Dems with a 16 point lead, and also finds that Democratic voters are significantly more enthusiastic about voting next November than Republicans.
Five Thirty Eight also notes that such polls are VERY predictive of how the House of Representatives will go in the midterms:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/heres-the-best-tool-we-have-for-understanding-how-the-midterms-are-shaping-up/This, if it holds up, should lead to the Dems winning control of the House.
Provided, of course, that Democratic voters actually do get out and vote.
And yes, YOUR VOTE MATTERS.
One of those races for the Virginia state legislature is TIED. Both candidates, even after the recount, got the exact same number of votes.
Republican Del. David E. Yancey entered Tuesday’s recount with a 10-vote lead over Democrat Shelly Simonds. At the end of the recount, Simonds appeared to have a one-vote lead over Yancey, which would have created a 50-50 split in the House after Democrats flipped 15 other GOP-held seats in a wave election last month.
Republicans indicated Tuesday evening that they wouldn’t challenge the outcome when it went before a three-judge panel for final approval.
But on Wednesday morning, Yancey’s campaign asked the court to accept a ballot that had been tossed aside. The voter had filled in bubbles for both Yancey and Simonds, but had put a slash through the Simonds bubble, which the court interpreted as intent to vote for Yancey. On the same ballot, the voter had made an X on the filled-in bubble beside the name of Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie. The ballot included clear votes for Republicans in the races for attorney general and lieutenant governor.
The additional vote for Yancey meant each candidate finished with 11,608 votes.
http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/virginia-elections-board-to-pick-random-winner-in-tied-house/article_203dc6b1-0cb6-5027-bc22-10b4ebfad10d.html
The race will be decided by pulling a name out of a hat. Seriously. And as mentioned in the quote, that will determine if the Dems control the legislature or it's evenly divided.
So fer f**k's sake, get the hell out and vote next year, OK?