Posted on 10/21/2017 2:31:06 PM PDT by SMGFan
Senate Republicans started the cycle with a good electoral map that gave them some hope that they could gain seats, even in a mid-term election when history strongly suggests that they should lose them. But, a growing schism in the Republican Party is threatening to erode many of the advantages Senate Republicans have, and is beginning to jeopardize their ability to gain seats as they are forced to fight multiple primaries that have the potential to provide Democrats with opportunities that didn’t exist just a month ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at cookpolitical.com ...
Nancy n Chuck are pulling the dealscanyway, so what difference does it make?
Charlie Cook has never been correct in any of his forecasts...period. The Democrat Party is self-destructing, committing political suicide with its own hands. End of story.
You will accept our RINO candidates and shut up. Or else.
What’s eroding the GOP’s prospects is the RINOs.
There are only a few GOP seats up for election in 2018 and most are rinos..
“Just a crazy thought, but maybe they should try doing what they said they would do if we sent them to DC to represent us.
It’s wacky. I know. But it might just work.”
If they did that, there would be no money in it for them.
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This was the final projection for the 2016 election from Cook Political Report. Use this as a starting point to create and share your own 2020 presidential election forecast.
Democrat 278 Republican 214
Roth, Cook, Sabato current predictions
4, 5 or 6 Toss Ups
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2018#cite_ref-13
Who really cares which branch of the Uniparty wins?
If you tell me it does, I’ve just got two words in response: John. McCain.
I wish ole Charlie was right because maybe we could the feckless bastards into acying like conservstives.Unfortunately charlie is fooling himself.
It should be noted that nobody lost because they were too conservative. But many lost because they were train wrecks.
Trump gets away with a lot of stuff that Congressional candidates won't be able to match. So we need to find candidates who don't self-destruct. We also need to develop a ground game among us activists. The article emphasizes money. But money cannot buy turnout for our side. (It can use negative ads to depress the other side's turnout.) Our volunteer activists getting out the vote is the best way to win.
Of course, we need to avoid the Clinton disease of overconfidence.
Yes, half adozen or so RINOs and Cruz.
Cowpie. People are not going to vote left. We’re still mad as hell.
Yep that’s what I recall. The guy is another dingbat getting it wrong.
LOL! Didn't you mean McConnell?
Mitch? Is that you?
That is correct. Sharron Angle in Nevada did not lose to Harry Reid because she was “too conservative” - she lost because she was a train wreck who had way too many verbal gaffes and somehow managed to make herself even less popular than Harry Reid, which was no small accomplishment as he was poised to lose - even possibly by double digits. It had nothing to do with her conservative philosophy - she just ran a very poor campaign despite having enormous amounts of campaign cash. Same sort of thing with Christine O’Donnell - granted, it would have been an uphill battle to begin with in a state like Delaware, but she had well over $10 million in campaign funds and could have hired the finest media companies to design and run her media campaign - instead she made pitiful ads that looked home movies like she made in her basement using Windows Media Player - and she started out with the “I’m not a witch” ad. At that point it was obvious all of those millions people came forward with and contributed were a waste and it was a lost cause since she decided to just shoot herself in the foot straight out of the gate. None of those decisions had anything whatsoever to do with her being a conservative on the issues.
Utter nonsense. GOP’s hopes as good as ever, only with candidates they really didn’t want to field.
BTW, there was a good story a few days ago about how Christine O’Donnell actually ran BETTER than the “establishment” Castle or Romney.
Kelli Ward will win the GOP primary and, yes, has a tough race against the darling Dem Sinema, but registration #s continue to favor GOP.
Kid Rock can win MI.
If Scott declares, he’ll beat Nelson.
A dead poodle could be McCaskill.
Tarkanian can beat Heller, but will have a tough race against the Dem. Once again, a united GOP can win.
On and on.
Ideally Bannon et al will bring us a big range of primary upsets that go on to win elections and the new firebrands won’t immediately become Gopes or Rephblican(D)s as past liberty zealots have done. The second best outcome might be a Democrat takeover of the House and maybe even the Senate. It just might be that Trump will be able to accomplish more with open labeled DEMOCRATS than is possible with the passive-to-active opposition of the Republican(D)s
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