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babylonsister

(171,059 posts)
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 10:46 PM Sep 2020

Most Senate Elections Reflect Presidential Votes



https://politicalwire.com/2020/09/15/most-senate-elections-reflect-presidential-votes/

Most Senate Elections Reflect Presidential Votes
September 15, 2020 at 6:45 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard


Pew Research: “The vast majority of the regular and special Senate elections held since 2012 – 122 of 139 – have been won by candidates who belonged to or were aligned with the party that won that state’s most recent presidential race.”

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Most Senate Elections Reflect Presidential Votes (Original Post) babylonsister Sep 2020 OP
Goodbye Mitch! I hope he's not an outlier. yonder Sep 2020 #1
Don't mean you hope he is an outlier Proud liberal 80 Sep 2020 #2
Of course, I hope Amy McGrath coattails a Biden victory yonder Sep 2020 #4
Mitch and Lindsay. I would so love it. Could happen. nt babylonsister Sep 2020 #3
A Trifecta! Wouldn't that be something. yonder Sep 2020 #5

yonder

(9,664 posts)
4. Of course, I hope Amy McGrath coattails a Biden victory
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 11:26 PM
Sep 2020

as the link suggested should be the case. A McConnell win would depart from the trend indicated by it - an outlier, a flyer, which I hope he does not become.

The biggest departures I want to see is tRump first and Mitch second.

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