Posted on 10/21/2017 2:31:06 PM PDT by SMGFan
Senate Republicans started the cycle with a good electoral map that gave them some hope that they could gain seats, even in a mid-term election when history strongly suggests that they should lose them. But, a growing schism in the Republican Party is threatening to erode many of the advantages Senate Republicans have, and is beginning to jeopardize their ability to gain seats as they are forced to fight multiple primaries that have the potential to provide Democrats with opportunities that didn’t exist just a month ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at cookpolitical.com ...
Last paragraph “The one thing that is clear is that Bannon’s war on Senate Republicans is eroding the party’s ability to make gains in 2018. It is too soon to say that the majority is in play; at this point that would require Democrats to hold all of their seats and pick up three Republican-held seats. However, it is fair to say that scenario is not the unthinkable proposition it was a month ago. If the national political environment further deteriorates for Republicans to the point that a wave along the lines of 2014 begins to develop, or they nominate a train wreck or two, Democrats could have a shot at winning the narrowest of majorities.”
Trump will drop out any day now.
Only ¡YEB! can beat Hillary.
Who wrote this piece? Mitch?
The GOP has the House, the Senate and the White House. What the hell do they need “gains” for? They aren’t using the power they’ve got. The commie ‘RATS have got them all pissing in their pants.
How much did Charlie Cook like Donald Trump in October 2015? I thought so. Forecasting congressional elections is so inaccurate it’s not even an art. Trump has the ability to forge the increasing anger over Obamacare into a 61 or 62 seat Senate majority. You watch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Cook
Cook graduated in 1972 from Captain Shreve High School in Shreveport and attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.[1]
Cook worked on Capitol Hill for then-Senator J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., a Democrat from Shreveport who served from 1972 to 1997. Cook also worked for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Policy Committee.
>>“The one thing that is clear is that Bannon’s war on Senate Republicans is eroding the party’s ability to make gains in 2018.
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Ah, the old Tokyo Rove B.S. line.
the fake news propaganda prognostications are starting early this election year.
here’s cook’s WRONG analysis of the 2016 election:
https://cookpolitical.com/presidential/charts/scorecard
there’s no other biz where being wrong so many times in a row has no negative consequences whatsoever.
It’s the establishment that may (hopefully) suffer losses.
Bannon is behaving like a paid Democrat mole.
Yet, outsiders like Roy Moore are doing just fine, up 11 in the latest poll in Alabama. Claire McCaskill was trailing in a recent poll in Missouri.
btw, it’s excellent news when the fake stream media starts touting alternate reality propaganda this early in the game. The leftists are primed to desperately want to believe this nonsense, and are going to be SO disappointed when none of this happens.
let’s hope there’s a drumbeat of more of this alternate reality and fake polls propaganda - the more the better.
after all, look at how well this kind of propaganda worked out for the leftists prior to the 2016 elections ...
The GOP has a super majority, has done nothing and look like idiots. What else can be expected? They’re losers. Thank God Trump is in.
Just a crazy thought, but maybe they should try doing what they said they would do if we sent them to DC to represent us.
It’s wacky. I know. But it might just work.
““The one thing that is clear is that Bannon’s war on Senate Republicans is eroding the party’s ability to make gains in 2018.”
gosh. and yet NO mention of the DNC’s ability to raise funds, failure to find credible candidates, failure to articulate what Dems actually stand far, or the Dems own civil war between their corrupt Clintonite establishment power brokers and the far left base of Berniebots, fleeing white folk, fleeing working folk, differential improvements in Pub registrations over Dem registrations in swing states (Pennsylvania alone has shown an astonishing net improvement of 200,000 for the Pubs since Trump was elected.)
yep, clearly Bannon is the only thing that matters, and Bannon is set to sink the GOP ...
Poor Lefty Charley is a huge liar and deranged Trump hater .
Charley the former Dem
aide has spreads lies for his Dem
party for decades .
The comics are a better read than Charleys lies.
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