As 2018 looms larger, the execution of the GOP agenda with its less than palatable impacts on voting blocks would appear to not bide well for incumbents. However, they've been given a life preserver via the hidden hand of redistricting. A majority of US state houses run with GOP majorities which have been employed to assure retention of seats so no matter how bitter the legislative medicine is, they'll return or as one canny candidate noted, "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters."