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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocrats Think Theyre Poised for Huge Victories in These 10 States
Just One Seat AwayColorado Senate: Seventeen of the Colorado Senates 35 seats will be up for election this November, in a chamber that has a tradition of competitive races, a near 50-50 split between parties, and some insulation from national waves. Colorados Senate stayed blue through the 2010 wave but ultimately flipped in 2014. From 2012 until 2014, Democrats had a 19-16 edge over Republicans.
Maine Senate: Erin Herbig, now the states House Majority Leader, could be the candidate to flip this chamber, Post said. The four-term congresswoman is running for term-limited Republican Mike Thibodeaus Senate seat. (Thibodeau briefly ranthen withdrewfrom the state governors race.) Herbig, a fifth-generation resident of the Senate district for which shes running, faces another candidate with state legislature experience, Jayne Crosby Giles.
Three Seats Away
Arizona Senate: Democrats hope Christine Marsh can be one of three candidates to help win back this chamber, which they havent controlled in more than 20 years. Marsh, an English teacher at a Scottsdale-area high school, was named the 2016 Arizona Teacher of the Year and spent a visit to the White House calling for increased funding of public education. The filing deadline for Arizona primaries isnt until May, but Marsh may face incumbent state Sen. Kate Brophy McGee come November.
New Hampshire Senate: Republicans flipped this chamber amid the 2010 tea party wave, taking 19 of the states 24 Senate seats. The GOP now holds a 14-10 majority. But momentum is on Democrats side: Hillary Clinton won the state in 2016, and Democrats have flipped four House seats since, most recently in February, when Democrat Philip Spagnuolo won a district that Trump had carried in 2016.
Wisconsin Senate: Half of the states 33 seats are up for election this November. As in New Hampshire, Republicans took control in 2010. Republicans have since widened a five-seat majority to seven, and Trump won the statearguably with the help of voter suppressionin 2016. Now that the DLCC flipped one Republican-leaning Senate seat in a special election in January, its hoping to flip at least one more in special elections this Junethe same month the Supreme Court will likely announce a decision on whether the redistricting plan in Wisconsins lower chamber is an unconstitutional, partisan gerrymander.
Four or More Seats Away
Florida Senate: Democratic enthusiasm seems to be running high in this swing state: In February, Democrat Margaret Good defeated Republican James Buchanan with 52 percent of the vote in a district Trump narrowly won in 2016, and now, after a special election victory earlier this week, Democrats need four more seats to take the state Senate.
Michigan House: Community organizer Padma Kuppa is one of the Democrats candidates who Post thinks has a shot at winning one of the nine seats the party needs to take back the House, which Democrats lost control of in 2010.
Iowa House: Democrats have outpaced Republicans in candidate filings and need 10 seats to flip the chamber. According to Ballotpedia, 112 Democrats and 93 Republicans had registered by the March filing deadline.
Pennsylvania House: Twenty seats are needed to flip this chamber, which seems like a long shot. But University of Pennsylvania political scientist Matt Levendusky argues that should Democrats run candidates well suited to the states swing suburban and rural districts, they just might pull it off. The DLCC is already eyeing a special election in May for what it calls a toss-up House seat.
Minnesota House: Minnesota, where voters have cast their ballots for Democratic candidates for president every cycle since 1976, is one of 16 states under a divided government. Republicans control the Senate and the House, which Democrats need 11 seats to flip, while outgoing Gov. Mark Dayton is a Democrat. Post told Mother Jones that Democrats are also targeting the state Senateelections for those seats will be in November 2020.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/04/democrats-think-theyre-poised-for-huge-victories-in-these-10-states/
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Democrats Think Theyre Poised for Huge Victories in These 10 States (Original Post)
RandySF
Apr 2018
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dhol82
(9,353 posts)1. Do not count your chickens before they hatch.
eleny
(46,166 posts)2. This data gives us the reason to work hard
I don't think people are sitting back on any laurels. Not after 2016. I believe that a lot of shoe leather will be worn down between now and November because Dems know we have a good chance of prevailing.
This!
BumRushDaShow
(128,980 posts)4. "Pennsylvania House: Twenty seats are needed to flip this chamber"
Democrats used to control one of the chambers in the past so it is not impossible.
Some more details on what is going on here - http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-nws-pennsylvania-state-house-races-democrats-20180309-story.html
mopinko
(70,103 posts)5. il 6th.
peter ro-scum is goin down.
my sister will help defeat him, along w a quite energized dupage dems.
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