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In reply to the discussion: The real reason there are so many threads about alleged "Progressive vote suppression" [View all]Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)If I ignore all the other polls. If I ignore sites like 538.
If I ignore the polls before, and after. If I ignore the other states in which Democratic Incumbents have already lost for all intents and purposes or are at serious risk of losing. If I try and celebrate the Democrats in the lead in New Hampshire, like Mike Brown was going to be a tough beat after crossing state lines to try and find somewhere he could get elected.
Look at those polls. Iowa is a big at risk state. While you're focused on one race, one state, and using it to extrapolate the entire control of the Senate, poorly as a matter of fact, there are a lot of Senate races we're in danger of losing. So what happens if we lose the others, and somehow through the auspices of a miracle, manage to win in Kentucky? We still lose the Senate. So someone else will be the Senate Majority Leader besides McConnell. Well, that will be great for us won't it?
All the money flowing to Grimes would be better served going to shore up the seats of Udall in Colorado, and Braley in Iowa. Because with those two we manage to keep control of the Senate, with Vice President Biden as the tie breaker presuming that Orman from Kansas doesn't jump to the Republican camp, a threat he's made before. How much would the Republicans give him to get control of the Senate? I'm betting they would give him a chairmanship of some committee or another, perhaps only vice chairmanship, but something really good where donations to his re-election campaign would be flooding in. I guess we could start a bidding war for the fine fellow from Kansas. What do you suggest we offer him to caucus with the Democrats?
If you want a third that I think we could win, then I'll throw that out there for the clear majority. Georgia, Michelle Nunn is way closer to winning than I think Grimes is. Especially since Grimes spends half her interviews refusing to say she's a Democrat who voted Democratic.
I suppose you could say that she's hoping to get the Racist vote, but do you think they're going to vote Democrat?