Ohio is falling off the Senate map. That’s trouble for Democrats nationally.

Well f- - - k, this is not good news.
There's hardly anything I want more than to see McTurtle tossed back in a fetid pond in Kentucky somewhere.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/30/why-ted-stricklands-struggles-could-cost-senate-democrats-dearly/?tid=pm_politics_pop_b#comments

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"If Ohio is indeed lost for Democrats, that marks a major complication — although far from a death blow — for their broader hopes at winning back the majority in November.

At the moment, there are two Republican-held seats that look likely to go to Democrats: Illinois and Wisconsin.

In Illinois, Sen. Mark Kirk (R) was always going to face a tough road. Kirk won his seat in the midterm election of 2010 (a great Republican year nationally) and against an ethically challenged Democratic candidate. Now he has to stand for reelection in a presidential election year against Rep. Tammy Duckworth, a top Democratic recruit, and with Donald Trump as his party's presidential candidate.

In Wisconsin six years ago, Sen. Ron Johnson (R) ran a terrific, outsider campaign to knock off incumbent Russ Feingold (D). But that was about the last smart thing Johnson did politically. He has voted like a senator representing Nebraska rather than one representing a Democratic-leaning state like Wisconsin. And Feingold, who ran a tin-eared and, frankly, just plain bad campaign in 2010, is much improved this time around.

Democrats scored a major recruiting coup in Indiana when they persuaded former senator Evan Bayh (D) to run for the seat being vacated by Sen. Dan Coats (R). Bayh, by dint of his family's famous last name and his time spent in the Senate and governorship, is, without question, the Democrats' strongest possible recruit in the Hoosier State. Polling suggests he has a comfortable if not certain edge over Rep. Todd C. Young, the Republican nominee.

Assuming that all three of those seats go Democratic, that's a three-seat pickup for the party. To claim the majority, the party would need four seats if Hillary Clinton is elected president (Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, Clinton's running mate, would serve as the tie-breaker vote) and five seats if Trump wins.

That math assumes that Democrats hold all of their own seats. That may not happen, given that Rep. Joe Heck (R) is seen as having a slight edge over former state attorney general Catherine Cortez Masto (D) in the race to replace Harry Reid (D) in Nevada."

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