These are not battleground districts. More registered Republicans than Democrats.
Nothing to be impressed about.
Of course, you are ignoring the margin of victory.
Both of the R candidates over performed.
You really are a clown. You post Analpundit drivel all day, naysay, and always act “concerned.”
There is a name for “concerned” posters like you.
The GOP over-performed the PVI in both districts. Moreover, the GOP has won seats in deep blue Connecticut this year.
Why don’t you lay out your Never-Trump agenda for all to see, or are you a coward?
“Nothing to be impressed about.”
really? massively outperforming the registration differential isn’t impressive?
it tells me that voters are sick to death of the dying lying leftist fake stream enemedia hysterical lies and propaganda and are NOT buying one iota of it ...
A win is a win is a win.
If the R won by 1%, in a district where they win by 15% on average, you wouldn’t be concerned? I sure would be. If you agree, then why doesn’t winning by 25% in that same district mean something? Likewise, if R’s have lost any special elections by a lot less than R’s normally do in some districts, that also means something.
Why R’s are doing well in these races is still open to interpretation. Maybe what we thought might happen last year is now occurring, i.e. many Democrat leaning voters perceive the party’s been captured by lunatics. We can hope anyway.
These are not battleground districts. More registered Republicans than Democrats.
Nothing to be impressed about.
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What a wet blanket!
So glad Trump doesn’t have piss poor attitudes like many that frequent FR!
They were beyond the level of GOP support for that district, even though it is Red. Shows high enthusiasm among the base.
“These are not battleground districts. More registered Republicans than Democrats. Nothing to be impressed about.”
Early in Trump’s term, there were a number of Republican Congressmen that joined his administration, and therefore left open their seats. Trump tried to only pick people from ‘safe’ seats, and Republicans held most of them, despite huge Democrat efforts to flip them. But some of them were VERY CLOSE. We didn’t hold our margins. I think we also lost one or two, and not to mention the Alabama Senate seat, although I attribute that to running Roy Moore.
BUT, in those 2 elections last night, we EXPANDED our margins...and that is something to celebrate - at least for people who don’t want to turn over the country to Democrats.
Au contraire. CT was a blue district. And the margin of all these victories was higher than in 2016. Plus the LA local seat went R for the first time in decades.
This is in fact the same trend we ignored in 2018, except reversed.
Oh, and TexasGurl24 left one out:
There was a VA race in a HEAVY blue area where the De held-—so it didn’t make TG’s list. But the D margin of victory was shockingly low.
Richard Baris of PPD pointed that out. He also said, at the time, that the CT race was a huge indicator.