Democrats May Have Been Overconfident About Capturing the Senate

NYMag ^ | http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/09/that-democratic-senate-looking-dicier.html | Ed Kilgore

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Part of the August of Democratic Complacency that revolved around robust poll numbers for Hillary Clinton (and the assumption they would get better and better as Americans shrank in revulsion from Donald Trump) was a consensus that Democrats would very likely win back control of the Senate and might even get the House if Trump continued to implode.

Donkey Party optimism about the Senate actually began to spike in July when former senator Evan Bayh suddenly jumped into the race for the seat of Republican Dan Coats, who is retiring. Bayh had big sacks of money left over from his previous Senate campaigns and had always been very popular among Hoosiers. Republican nominee Todd Young looked like a sudden loser, and a lot of observers figured the GOP would concede the seat.

But pro-Republican outside groups did not get the memo, and they’ve already spent $5 million on the Indiana Senate race, with more in the pipeline. And although the Bayh name may be minor magic in the state, the former senator has some baggage, too, including tenuous residency in the state during his recent years as a lawyer-lobbyist in sinful D.C. While the Democrat is still the favorite, the polls are tightening noticeably, and Indiana’s one state where Trump is unlikely to drag down the ticket.

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And I’m a mere passer-on of an immutable Word that I did not author and I cannot change.

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'Cause it's called assault with a deadly weapon

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I think it pretty laughable that, even in the face of a phenomenon like Donald Trump that lacks any plausible explanation short of the divine, people will continue to declare their fierce fealty to the “arm of flesh” as though what God started, they must finish as though they and God were peers!

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