all depends on what happens next 5 or 6 months with fisa, U1 plus other issues and economy... these special elections with nothing else on ballot just doesn’t drive turn out especially state elections which are less ideological..
This ignorance of what wins elections is why we lose. The Democrats have an effective GOTV-Get Out The Vote operation, as was seen in VA and AL. The GOTV does not depend on issues or what happens on the outside. In an effective GOTV, the marginal voter who turned out by the GOTV votes for the person who knocks on his door. These voters do not vote issues. They do not vote for faces on national TV.
This is hand-to-hand political combat. In hand-to-hand combat it does not matter what people in the Pentagon are saying. What matters is the skill of those engaged in hand-to-hand combat. For the most part, Conservative activists are AWOL from the battle.