Posted on 12/10/2024 2:15:02 PM PST by cotton1706
Kamala Harris’s defeat was damaging to the left. But her loss overshadows the true scope of the damage wrought on the Democratic Party: the permanent loss of the Senate.
Democrats have lost the Senate before, but this loss is different from 2014. This time, it may well be for good. For the first time in a century, there is not one Democratic senator from a reliably red state.
We have entered an era of one-party rule — at least where the Senate is concerned.
Today, the Senate map mirrors the national electoral divide. Democratic senators in blue states, Republican senators in red states, and swing states up for grabs. That’s grim news for Democrats. Simply put, there are more red states than blue states.
For decades, Democrats relied on popular Democratic senators in deep-red states — for example, Tom Daschle in South Dakota (lost in 2004), Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas (lost in 2010), Mary Landrieu in Louisiana (lost in 2014), Claire McCaskill in Missouri (lost in 2018), and Jon Tester in Montana (lost in 2024). In recent years, these red-state Democrats were critical to holding the Democratic majority.
The final nationalization of the Senate in 2024 with the ousting of Tester and Sherrod Brown in Ohio, and the retirement of Joe Manchin in West Virginia, shifts the path to a Democratic Senate majority entirely to blue and purple states. This makes the Democrats’ task nearly impossible.
Republicans, in contrast, can compete in many more states. Even if Democrats sweep every swing state contest (and oust Susan Collins in Maine), they can win at most 52 seats in the Senate. That includes both seats in North Carolina. If Republicans were to win all the Senate seats in all of those same swing states, they would control 62 seats.
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When we get a national voter ID requirement and hopefully one day voting and paper ballots the democrats are going to have a very rough way to go.
In the past, Democrats in the Senate have reliably voted as a block. Their leadership tells them how it’s going to go, and they follow along like good little sheep. That was a way of self-preservation. But now things are different. Now, a Democrat senator may want to choose their own, more reasonable, path. That’s the new way of self-preservation. The country is fed up with the Woke, anti-American BS.
Good. It would be nice to eliminate the ‘rat party. Then, the rinos and globalists.
Heard it all before... The GOP has a chance to do great things and I’m just as sure they’ll find a way to F’ it up.
History has proven that and will again unless significant corrections are made.
Pretty optimistic. Doesn’t factor in the RINOcracy. Once they squish and show their belly’s to the Dims and the media, it’s all over.
When we get a national voter ID requirement and hopefully one day voting and paper ballots the communists are going to have a very rough way to go.
And while they’re at it they can eliminate vast swaths of government bureaucrats. The entire Department of Homeland Security should be fired with prejudice. Most of the Department of Justice entirety of the IRS and the Department of Education should be burned to the ground and the Earth’s salted to never return. I’m probably missing a few but let’s start there.
Unwise to count on that.The Rats still have their fraud machine.
“permanent Senate majority”
I have heard that before.
But there are RINOcrat senators in some red states.
Too bad the House will be difficult to get bills through.
I’d like to see 55+. That will certainly show all the RINOs and useless members of the senate. If (God willing) it gets to 62? THEN things could REALLY get interesting. I hope to live long enough to see it happen.
They are in the process of eliminating themselves as a party. We may not need to help very much.
“The GOP has a chance to do great things and I’m just as sure they’ll find a way to F’ it up.”
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Safe bet. The GOP never fails to disappoint.
Good. But nonsense.
Pathetic whining by The Hill. The tone of the article is one of despondence. They are so protective of the Democrat brethern.
Um... if they were popular why did they lose?!
I hope the author is correct but the future will tell.
They need to stick to open borders and men in women’s bathrooms.
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