Posted on 09/25/2014 6:08:59 AM PDT by cotton1706
With just weeks to go before Election Day, the fight for the Senate is coming down to a handful of states, and two of them are very familiar to the chairmen of the two Senate campaign committees.
Kansas Republican Jerry Moran and Colorado Democrat Michael Bennet are trying to avoid becoming the first senate campaign committee chairmen to have a home state colleague defeated in the last four decades.
At the beginning of the cycle, both Colorado and Kansas were rated as Safe for their respective parties. Even as recently as seven months ago, the two states were not mentioned in any serious conversation about the fight for the Senate. NRSC Chairman Moran was focused on expanding GOP opportunities across the country while Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Bennet was focused on bringing back the Democrats’ majority by shoring up a trail of incumbents in the South and Alaska.
But a lot has changed, and the fight for the Senate has hit home for both chairmen.
When GOP Rep. Cory Gardner announced his challenge to Democratic Sen. Mark Udall in Colorado at the end of February, it was one of the truly surprising moments of the election cycle. But it was also surprising that it came as a surprise to Democrats, considering Bennet represents the Centennial State’s other seat and the committee had named its entire national get-out-the-vote effort (The Bannock Street Project) after a street in Denver.
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Moran (KS) - 2016 - 72% (Average) - 66% (Heritage) - 75% (CFG) - 80% (ACU) - 67% (FreedomWorks)
They should be watching McConnell closely here in Kentucky. My ‘very’ informal polling shows that he is in trouble but probably will squeek through. A lot of that will be determined by what happens between now and election day. Most though if they do vote for him will be by holding their noses from the stench of doing so.
Re: The KY Senate Race: I’m thinking that the big “surprise” in that race will be how many Conservatives stay home or skip the Senate Race on the ballot or even vote for the Dem. (But, they’d never tell a pollster that.)
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