Posted on 11/08/2018 12:42:54 PM PST by therightliveswithus
If there’s one thing that the left is consistently poor at, it’s managing expectations. Since President Trump’s inauguration, his opponents hung their fortunes on the idea of a massive blue wave to sweep away congressional Republicans in the midterms. Instead, we saw a modest Democratic gain in the House of Representatives and a strong Republican gain in the Senate. Democrats lost crucial races where they ran candidates too far left to carry moderate or conservative districts; it was moderate Democrats who had the best shots, while most of the hardcore leftists lost race after race Tuesday.
The left believed that the midterms would be a bellwether for 2020. In many ways, it is — if the party can tack towards the middle instead of pushing for ideological purity.
Just about every pollster and op-ed predicted a massive sweep for blue candidates across the nation. In states where Democrats needed a commanding majority, they actually lost ground. Gains in some parts of the Rust Belt, like Pennsylvania, were matched by losses in Ohio and Indiana. Democrats lost many of these tight races because they nominated candidates well outside of the mainstream. Democrats tried to run the table and found fewer wins in states that were not already left-leaning. The party won impressive victories in New Mexico, Virginia and Colorado. However, this base-only effort largely failed to reach out to independent and moderate voters that Democrats won over in 2006 and 2008. In several notable examples, candidates who aligned themselves with the progressive Bernie Sanders wing of the party lost winnable races.
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Holding onto the Senate is still not a given with the “counting” going on.
Have no fear; after all is said and done, Gillum and Nelson will prevail in FL, McSally will lose in AZ. Maybe Kemp will take GA, just maybe. The RATS do it every year and the spineless pubbies never fight the bastards.
It should be illegal for people this stupid to spew their opinions on the internet it’s making everyone collectively dumber. And a whole bunch of people apparently need to to go to remedial civics class.
Trump will face re election in 2020. Class 3 senators will also face re-election in 2020 22 republican, 12 democrat. Of the 22 republican seats 7 are in vulnerable territory so Mitch McConnells strategy of ignoring the borderline seats will not work next time around.
Conservatives should start on their fund raising ground game now. And come up with a great grassroots campaign for recruiting candidates for the inevitable retirements that will happen. As we saw in Kansas, candidates matter, no matter how long Trump’s coattails might be.
When all the recounting is done, the republicans will only be at a net +1.
“When all the recounting is done, the republicans will only be at a net +1.”
And that’s Romney.
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