No, it hasn’t gutted morale...
the GOP isn’t fighting at all here.. .at least not in this part of the state, can’t say how things are over by philly...
But they aren’t fighting for it... we are just over a month from the election and I don’t even know if I have seen an ad for Scott Walker once.... and Sighting a Barletta ad is rarer than an Elvis sighting.
I have been saying it since PA-18, the GOP messaging is CRAP... Its a DUD.. you are not going to motivate and pull in the folks who helped give Trump these states by running the same old messaging you ran for 20 years. But at least during PA-18 the republicans were fighting, even with a bad message.. there is ZERO evidence the GOP is fighting at all in the state wide races here....
They pretty much conceded long ago.... Status quo election.... Big outcome will likely be a few Congressional Seats flip Dem as fallout from the forced redistricting is felt.
Kavanaugh crap will probably improve the GOP numbers, but they are so far behind even that won’t make this a race... I believe Casey is up 17 or something like that.
Same is true over in OH... MI and WI... OH GOP Senator is down 15, MI down 18, WI Down 11! The GOP Messaging is EXCREMENT! Even with a solid Bounce out of the Kavanaugh fiasco, about the only D senator that might lose to the GOP up here will be MN! Believe it or not! Probably the MOST liberal of all the upper midwest states!
The GOP is abjectly electorally incompetent! Their messaging is a joke, they have ZERO clue what it takes to win outside the south and mountain states... You aren’t going to WIN in this part of the country by just saying ‘Democrats are bad’... Trump showed you how to win here and you just effing ignore it and do the same old losing crap you have done for 20+ years.
About the ONLY bright spot is that Manchin, in WV may be out... Of the red state democrats in the Senate he’s probably the MOST likely to survive, but I don’t think even he will survive what’s coming.
But, for the rest of the upper midwest, the GOP has engaged in complete electoral incompetence and malpractice... There is an outside chance they could turn it around, IF THEY WAKE UP AND FIX THEIR MESSAGING.. but it seems highly unlikely...
Its a sad sad statement that the most likely, and only Senate win that might come out of the upper midwest for the Republicans is likely out of MN!! They just don’t, or refuse to get it....
The only reason the GOP isn’t losing the house now, is thanks to Kavanaugh fiasco... and there is no excuse for it.
There is still time, the GOP could wake up and start messaging properly, and truly fight and maybe turn something around up here... but that window is closing very very fast.
Kavanaugh may end up a net 6-8 point swing in most places, but across this part of the country, even that would only make MN Senate Race competitive. The GOP seems determined to lose... They just don’t grasp that you aren’t going to get a lot of ex lifetime Democrats to support you by calling the Democrat names... Give them a reason to vote for you, show them you “get” them and will fight for them... otherwise you offer NOTHING... and that’s been the GOP midterm message in the upper midwest... a whole lot of nothing.
I live in the Delaware Valley, it’s just as bad here as it is in Western PA. The GOP isn’t even showing up.
I have been seeing ads with Casey and steel workers where he is taking credit for tariffs on American Steel. If Wagner and Barletta are short on cash they should team up and hold events with each other rather than whining that their opponents won’t debate. Do several a day... Make some news. Come to central PA and shake it up... The local radio in Harrisburg would Let them call in every day and have a bully pulpit. Use it - If that doesn’t work call the little stations in Chambersburg and similar towns, - Anything to show that they actually care.