Democrats By the Numbers

Number of U.S. House seats the Democrats have in the 115th Congress: 194 (out of 435)

Number of U.S. Senate seats the Democrats have in the 115th Congress:  48, including 2 independents (out of 100) 

Number of Senate seats Democrats could have in the 116th Congress: 40

Number of filibusters they could have after 2018 with that number of Senators: 0

Number of Democratic governorships: 15

Number of Democratic-majority state legislative houses: 31 (out of 99)

Number of state legislative seats Democrats have lost since 2008: about 900

Number of states in which the Democrats have the governor's office and both houses of the legislature: 6

Number of presidential possibilities for 2020: 0 

The last time a party was in such dire straits: 1852

Number of years that party in dire straits - the Whig Party - lasted after then: 4

Imagining former Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz in a bar in Miami Beach getting plastered: priceless

There are some things money can't buy.  For everything else, there's Citizens United.