Also, with Trump at the top of the ticket, it’s very likely that the Senate will be strongly Dem after the election anyway, so probably Merrick would be better than what Hillary might propose to a Dem Senate next year.
Why would the Senate be strongly democrat if Trump is at the head of the republican ticket????
It’s strongly Dem now. Honestly, what will be the difference?
>>Also, with Trump at the top of the ticket, it’s very likely that the Senate will be strongly Dem after the election anyway
I don’t feel that. Enthusiasm is on life support for the Dems.
They had 1.6 million votes in 2008. This shrunk to barely over a million this primary.
The Republicans had BARELY .5 million in 2008. This rose to 8 million in 2012 and hit 1.2 million this year. In 8 years, 1 million vote switch from Dem to Republican.
This will definitely change in the general, but this is occurring in every state and shows a huge turnout for Republicans. Democrat coattails will be small with Hillary because of Bernie stayhomes and switchovers. It will be even LOWER if Bernie bolts to third party.
I wonder if the GOP made a deal with Obama on this one. There will be no serious political price to pay for holding up the nomination of a white guy with two last names from a Marxist sh!t-hole like Chicago.
2016 is not shaping up to be good year for Democrats. With Hillary losing the FBI lottery and the extremely negative publicity that’s forthcoming, Democrats will be forced to substitute Biden which probably means that Bernie the commie will run as an independent.
With Hillary’s pay-to-play scheme about to erupt, the public is about to witness details of malfeasance in office that’s beyond imagination. The scandal is going to enmesh Obama and the DOJ so much that the SCOTUS controversy won’t even make the back page.
Lots of Democrats will be staying home and hunkering down.
What makes you say that? Who in the Senate do you think will lose their seats to democrats?