[Political Junkie Too]

Not rigged, just that Republicans prefer a strategy of not making waves and being passive -- in other words, the Mitch McConnell way.

If the Republicans articulated a national unifying message across all Senate campaigns, things would be different. However, McConnell didn't do that in 2012 and he's not doing it now.

This pattern is exactly what happened in 2012. Republicans were poised to pick up 7 seats before the conventions, and ended up losing 2 seats on election day because nobody tried to unify and nationalize the Senate races, and McConnell was AWOL between September and November.

-PJ

[tennmountainman]

Exactly. There is no national message coming fro the GOP leadership.
Zip, nada, nothing.

Maybe the GOP does not want a sweeping election because they would actually have to do something and be held accountable.