I'll bet the Rats can find themselves a dark horse candidate ... somewhere.
Posted on 12/16/2014 1:04:39 PM PST by cotton1706
Sweeping House losses have not only pushed Democrats into a historic minority, they’ve depleted the bench of potential Senate recruits for the 2016 elections.
After losing the majority in the midterms, Senate Democrats are seeking strong recruits for 2016 in hopes of netting the five seats necessary to ensure they win control again. Party officials argue the majority is within reach because many Senate Republicans elected in 2010 are seeking re-election in a presidential cycle in competitive states such as Florida, Illinois, Ohio, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
But brutal losses in 2010 and 2014 have decimated the ranks of House Democrats in many of those states — and also shrunk the pool of potential Senate candidates.
“It’s a new election in a presidential year, but the thinness of the ranks of the U.S. House delegations, that will have an impact,” said Mike Fraioli, a Democratic fundraiser.
In 2010, widespread Democratic losses gave the GOP the power to control the decennial redistricting process in many battleground states. That led to more GOP-friendly districts on the map — the results of which were exacerbated in the 2014 cycle, when Republicans made major gains again.
For example, President Barack Obama carried Pennsylvania twice, but Democrats hold just five of the state’s 18 House seats (down from a dozen districts before 2010). And of the handful of remaining Pennsylvania Democrats, many have already passed on a bid against Sen. Patrick J. Toomey. Former Rep. Joe Sestak, who lost to Toomey in 2010, is seeking a rematch, but some Democrats in the state say they are looking elsewhere for potential candidates.
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What difference did it make?
In Indiana, outside of Chicagoland, there are simply NO high profile Democrats left in state-level politics.
Indianapolis Media is trying to create one, in the person of Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz, but Pence has moved to cut her off at the knees.
May I suggest former PSU President Graham Spainer for Pennsylvania to take on Toomey? He has all the qualifications of a good Democrat: a career in academia, celebrity status, a love for sexual deviance and the ability to skate past the Sandusky boy molestation scandal even if he should be sharing a cell with him.
I'll bet the Rats can find themselves a dark horse candidate ... somewhere.
I call her the “Ritz Ditz”
Haha. Loser degenerates.
I think the only question about Mooch is: Illinois or California?
With DiFi a potential retiree, she’d be a lock in Cali, similar to how Hillary did it in 2000 in NYS.
Well, this is one reason that I was happy to vote in November. But I have all the confidence they can find some horrid demagogues that can run.
Are we supposed to feign some sympathy for these commies?
More good news from this election. The good news just keeps on coming. The voters have given us a Merry Christmas.
Except that Mitch and Boner took a great big dump in our stockings.
They made a few bad choices, no doubt about it.
A few ? That abomination of a “funding” bill proves they’re just an adjunct of the Democrat Party. I’m done supporting candidates that aren’t committed to Conservative and pro-Constitutional change to get our country back. Mitch, the Weeper, Lamar!, Mizz Nancy, Dingy, Plugs & Zero and all the rest of the big government Republicrat cabal can go screw themselves. They’re all leftists.
That mouth could eat an apple through a picket fence.
I know, I have no sympathy for them. They have turned America into a ghetto in 6 short years.
In PA, that rat scum I think might have been Toomey’s strongest challenger, AG Kathleen Kane, had decided to run for reelection to her current job instead, amid scandal.
She’s not going to run, she’s way too lazy for that. Corporate board no-show jobs are a lot more Moose-chell’s style. She thinks she works hard answering e-mails for 2 hours/day, attending a quarterly board meeting, and going to a conference every year.
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