Can Democrats ever retake the House?
(J. Scott Applewhite / AP)
With their ranks severely depleted and with no control over the chamber’s agenda, they are now the most tangible symbols of the party’s recent electoral defeats. And the wreckage has made discussions about the future difficult and divisive.
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