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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMidwestern Dems Look For Big Midterm Gains After Decade Of Electoral Disaster
By Cameron Joseph | August 16, 2018 6:00 am
RACINE, WI As he campaigned for GOP Senate candidate Leah Vukmir on Monday, retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) took a moment to bask in his partys years-long streak of dominance.
We have grown a lot. We have done really well here in Wisconsin. Remember when we didnt have the assembly, or the Senate, or the Supreme Court, or a U.S. Senate seat, or the governors mansion, or the attorney general? Weve won all those things since 2010, he said, before turning to Vukmir. We have one more hill to climb. But that hills looking much steeper this year in Ryans backyard than it has in nearly a decade. And Democrats, for the first time since President Obama ascended to the White House in 2008, are feeling like theyre running downhill in Wisconsin and other nearby Midwestern states that have shifted hard away from them in recent years.
Midwestern Democrats seem poised to roar back in the Midwest, riding a wave of suburban fury at President Trump, sky-high base enthusiasm, conservative-leaning and rural voters worry about Trumps trade wars, and local dissatisfaction with GOP leadership over a number of bread-and-butter issues.
Thats especially true in the four Midwestern states where low Democratic enthusiasm helped Trump flip from Obama last election, handing him the White House: Iowa, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin.
In all four states, Democrats see a real shot at winning back the governors mansions that have eluded them for the past two cycles. Their three senators who face the voters this year Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) appear likely to cruise to reelection. Four of the 27 House seats the Cook Political Report rates as GOP-held tossup races are in these states.
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Midwestern Dems Look For Big Midterm Gains After Decade Of Electoral Disaster (Original Post)
DonViejo
Aug 2018
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ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)1. Don't underestimate the GOP political machine.
They are established and know what they are doing. If the Dems win back any control, it will be hard fought and no cake walk.
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)2. GOTV!