«Labour is lucky, save in the 1981 deputy leadership contest, that it has never elected a leader or deputy in the modern
era against the majority wishes of ordinary party members.
Such a huge loss by the Republican presidential nominee would pit two oft - voiced truisms
against one another: that the House
majority is securely in GOP hands because of the tilted redistricting process in 2011, and that the
era of voters splitting presidential tickets is over.