Maybe the base isn't all that disillusioned after all

Getting the base to the polls remains a way for even a party in a weak political position to do better than expected- and despite predictions of electoral disaster for the Republicans this November based at least in part on the disaffection of that base, the GOP looks a great deal stronger in that department than is generally assumed.

Don't get me wrong; I am anything but sanguine about the Party's chances of doing more than hanging on to both houses of Congress by the skin of its teeth. But it's not quite as far in the dumpster as some think.

Democrats may yet be frustrated in a fourth consecutive national election.