Our path to the senate is harder

[Legends303]

but doable in 2020, I was hoping we kept at least the current number of senate seats we have now or by some miracle gained a seat majority. A President with a rating of 44% approval should not have kept the senate in my opinion and say what you will about Trump he motivated his base where it counted. I just hope that we focus on the Senate in 2020 this time around because that's where real policy changes happens.

[Maxheader]

1. The cheetox touch...

Didn't help kris koback...loser in the kansaas guv race...

[NewJeffCT]

2. It was actually a miracle Democrats lost only 2 seats

If it was somebody that was a normal person and terrible politically (say, Jeb Bush or John Kasich) and the economy was about the same, Republicans could have been picking up a similar amount of seats that they won in 2014 (Republicans picked up 9 seats). The map facing Democrats in 2018 was called arguably the worst in history.

The fact that facing a worse map in 2018 than 2014 but cutting losses from 9 to 2 in a pretty good economy is actually a fantastic performance.

the 2020 map is not great - Cory Gardner and Susan Collins are the most obviously vulnerable, as is the guy in Georgia that beat Michelle Nunn by a small amount (esp if a Dem Secretary of State can reverse some of the damage there... Go GA tomorrow - GOTV!)

[pecosbob]

3. McTurtle is up in 2020 I believe...

[Wellstone ruled]

4. The Policical distaste for the Rethugs

and their Corruption will assure we Dems of a Senate Majority in 2020 . Just their lack of oversight and the blatant protection of Trump is swaying the Nation to the Dems . BTW,that so called 44% is pure bullshit,that is a Ramsmusson Poll. 538 is the only number that matters and Silvers says the data is so jacked up that it averages on the high side.

[onenote]

5. His approval is higher thx not 44 percent in most of the systed

Where republicans won senate seats in November

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. The next President NEEDS a fully Democratic Congress

or will not get much done. It will be light-years better having a Democratic WH and he/she can reverse some damage on their own, but we can't afford to have Republicans preventing us from blocking Supreme Court or other judicial nominations (esp. because RBG can probably last another 2 years but not much more beyond that IMHO), stalling cabinet picks, blocking progressive legislation, etc.