10 Senate seats that could flip in 2018

The Hill ^

[bryan999]

Democrats reeling from a devastating election face a daunting task: the 2018 Senate map.

It favors Republicans in a big way. The GOP will be defending just eight seats, while Democrats must fight for 23 — plus another two held by independents who caucus with Democrats.

What’s worse is the fact that many of the seats they must defend are in states won by Republican Donald Trump.

Midterm elections for sitting presidents are historically challenging. Democrats in the Senate are hoping to find some political momentum for 2018 given the difficult playing ground.

Here are 10 Senate seats that could flip, in alphabetical order:

[bryan999]

An article from a couple months back.. Breakdown at link.

I was looking for a primer on the subject, and found this... And so...

Discuss !

[Newbomb Turk]

We need to make sure we ditch the establishment Republicans.

Get on the Trump Train or get out.

You can see it already, the Hill Republicans are secretly bucking Trump.

[Vince Ferrer]

At this rate I think they will lose more than that.

We need to focus on local elections. State legislatures, mayors, school boards, etc. Keep taking away their minor leaguers.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Corker, Hatch, Heller and Flake need to be Cantorized in the primary.
They all voted for Rubio’s Gang of Amnesty bill.

[DarthVader]

They can easily lose 11-12 seats.

[teeman8r]

Look for the senate to be ten percent more republican...

[Vince Ferrer]

There will be one or two winnable governor’s races in 2017-2018 too.

[BAW]

Looking forward to the chance to finally send Claire McCaskill back home to Missouri. Let’s hope the GOP finds someone electable this time.

[Publius]

I suspect Minnesota will be one of them.

[Cowboy Bob]

With Democrat voters now being deported, the number of vulnerable Democrat Senators could be much more than 10!

[DarthVader]

Yep and VA is one of them.

[Paladin2]

Lotsa ‘Rats elected with Hussein now on their own w/o Hussein AND in a mid-term election. Much tougher row to hoe.

[TBP]

Only one of the 10 is held by a Republican. I want a net gain of 8.

[Repeal The 17th]

I can see five easy, but 10 is probably too optimistic...

33 Senators up for reelection in 2018
State	Incumbent	Party	Intent	2016 Presidential
California	Dianne Feinstein	Democratic	Unknown	CLINTON
Connecticut	Chris Murphy	Democratic	Running	CLINTON
Delaware	Tom Carper	Democratic	Unknown	CLINTON
Florida	Bill Nelson	Democratic	Running	TRUMP
Hawaii	Mazie Hirono	Democratic	Running	CLINTON
Indiana	Joe Donnelly	Democratic	Running	TRUMP
Maryland	Ben Cardin	Democratic	Unknown	CLINTON
Massachusetts	Elizabeth Warren	Democratic	Running	CLINTON
Michigan	Debbie Stabenow	Democratic	Unknown	TRUMP
Minnesota	Amy Klobuchar	Democratic	Running	CLINTON
Missouri	Claire McCaskill	Democratic	Running	TRUMP
Montana	Jon Tester	Democratic	Running	TRUMP
New Jersey	Bob Menendez	Democratic	Unknown	CLINTON
New Mexico	Martin Heinrich	Democratic	Running	CLINTON
New York	Kirsten Gillibrand	Democratic	Running	CLINTON
North Dakota	Heidi Heitkamp	Democratic	Unknown	TRUMP
Ohio	Sherrod Brown	Democratic	Running	TRUMP
Pennsylvania	Bob Casey, Jr.	Democratic	Running	TRUMP
Rhode Island	Sheldon Whitehouse	Democratic	Running	CLINTON
Virginia	Tim Kaine	Democratic	Running	CLINTON
Washington	Maria Cantwell	Democratic	Unknown	CLINTON
West Virginia	Joe Manchin	Democratic	Running	TRUMP
Wisconsin	Tammy Baldwin	Democratic	Running	TRUMP
Maine	Angus King	Independent	Running	split
Vermont	Bernie Sanders	Independent	Running	CLINTON
Arizona	Jeff Flake	Republican	Unknown	TRUMP
Mississippi	Roger Wicker	Republican	Unknown	TRUMP
Nebraska	Deb Fischer	Republican	Unknown	TRUMP
Nevada	Dean Heller	Republican	Running	CLINTON
Tennessee	Bob Corker	Republican	Unknown	TRUMP
Texas	Ted Cruz	Republican	Running	TRUMP
Utah	Orrin Hatch	Republican	Unknown	TRUMP
Wyoming	John Barrasso	Republican	Unknown	TRUMP

 

[vette6387]

Hatch, Heller and Flake are all Mormons! The Mormon Church is as bad as the Catholics at flaunting our immigration laws. Take it from me, I was raised in that disgraceful church. They may “say” they are “subject to man’s laws” but the truth is that they aren’t, and neither are the Catholics. At least the Mormons don’t rape little boys behind the altar.

[Newbomb Turk]

Tim Kaine, Your Fired !

[Diana in Wisconsin]

So. Much. Winning. Let’s enjoy it while we can and do ALL we can to thwart them as we Make America Great Again.

I’ve been around long enough to see how the pendulum swings. The mistake we’ve made in the past is NOT hobbling the ‘Rats when we’ve had (few) Golden Opportunities to do so.

This. Is. The. Best. One. EVER!

Let’s not squander it!

[Salvation]

Bill Nelson (D.) Fla.
Joe Donnelly (D.) Ind.
Clare McCaskill (D.) Mo.
Jon Tester (D.) Montana
Heidi Heitkamp (D.)N.D.
Sherrod Brown, (D.) Ohio
Bob Casey (d.) Pa
Joe Manchin (D.) W. V.
Tammy Baldwin (D.) Wis.

[Duchess47]

Dean Heller is a neverTrump, is not a shining star here in Nevada and a lot of us will work hard to see that he is not reelected.

By the way, he was the senator that came saundering in at the very tale end of the vote on Sessions. Sorry, arrogant sob.

[napscoordinator]

2017 Virginia and New Jersey. Thank God it is an off year election. We may have a chance, but then again we lost Louisiana shockingly.

And we lost a seat in a recent election I think in Iowa this week.

There is another election on Tuesday (I want to say Virginia)

Republicans can sure screw it up that is for sure.