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nkpolitics1212

(8,617 posts)
Sat Jul 22, 2017, 09:56 AM Jul 2017

2018 and 2020 US Senate Election cycle could be like 2006 and 2008 US Senate Election cycle.

Democrats will regain control of the US Senate in 2018 by holding onto every Democratic held seat including IN,MO,MT,ND,OH,and WV and pick up AZ(Stanton),NV(Rosen),and TX(O'Rourke)-which will be the Macaca race.
Democrats will expand their majority in the US Senate in 2020 by holding onto every Democratic held seat including MI,MN,NH,and VA and pick up AZ special(Sinema),CO(Hickenlooper),GA (Reed),IA (Vilsack),KY (Beasher),ME (Pingree),MT (Bullock),NC (Foxx),and TX (Castro) to get to 60 seats.

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2018 and 2020 US Senate Election cycle could be like 2006 and 2008 US Senate Election cycle. (Original Post) nkpolitics1212 Jul 2017 OP
Could be NCDem777 Jul 2017 #1
 

NCDem777

(458 posts)
1. Could be
Sat Jul 22, 2017, 11:06 AM
Jul 2017

but the Dem leadership will have to stop screaming Russia Russia Russia and start screaming healthcare for all. And fully embrace non-interventionism to win back the anti-war vote.

in 2006, we ran on the big issue of the time: Getting out of Iraq. We beat that drum hard.

Unfortunately, the leadership runs on "we're not Trump." How'd that strategy work out for Hillary?

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