0 you re hearing? well, alex, house democrats face a monumental task in order to make nancy pelosi speaker again. they have to win 17 seats, which is a difficult thing to do. in order to do that, they are trying to figure out what can sort of be the silver bullet, the issue to get them those 17. joe biden made a good point today, he said november is three political lifetimes from now, but the issue they want to focus on are the following three, income inequality, which they believe is a defining issue to get a lot of people to the polls, also a federal minimum wage hike, and imgrmigration reform. you re going to see a big push on minimum wage. immigration reform is going to come more from outside groups that have the money that are waiting to move forward on this issue, but haven t done so because they thought there would be a chance for a bipartisan compromise. however, however you slice it and dice it, if you look at the political map, getting those 17 seats is very, very difficult