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nkpolitics1212

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Sat Jul 10, 2021, 03:56 PM Jul 2021

Will the 2022 OH US Senate Race be similar to the 2006 TN US Senate Race?

The 2006 TN US Senate Race was an OPEN seat US Senate Election(Frist-R was retiring) Democrats fielded a Top Tier candidate(Harold Ford Jr.) Republicans had 3 Generic candidates(Corker-R, Bryant-R, or Hilleary-R). Ford jr-D narrow lost to the Republican nominee(Corker-R).
The 2022 OH US Senate Race is an OPEN seat US Senate Election(Portman-R is retiring.) Democrats have a Top Tier candidate(Tim Ryan-D). Republicans have 3 Generic candidates(Mandel-R, Timken-R, and Vance-R).

2006 Democrats picked up 6 US Senate seats.
PA(Santorum-R lost to Casey-D by a landslide margin.)
OH(DeWine-R lost to Brown-D by a low double digit margin.)
RI(Chaffee-R lost to Whitehouse-D by a high single digit margin.)
MO(Talent-R lost to McCaskill-D by a narrow margin.)
MT(Burns-R lost to Tester-D by a narrow margin.)
VA(Allen-R lost to Webb-D by a narrow margin.)

2022
PA(OPEN Toomey-R) Is Fetterman-D margin of victory over the likely Republican nominee going to be similar to Casey-D margin of victory over Santorum-R in 2006.
NC(OPEN Burr-R) The race is a statistical tie. The question is which Democrat is a stronger General Election candidate (Beasley-D or Jackson-D).
WI(Johnson-R) narrowly loses to either Godlewski-D,Barnes-D, Kaul-D, or Kind-D.

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Will the 2022 OH US Senate Race be similar to the 2006 TN US Senate Race? (Original Post) nkpolitics1212 Jul 2021 OP
I hope we do better, this time; elleng Jul 2021 #1
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