There is no shortage of numbers and developments that should be worrisome to Republicans as they approach the 2018 midterm elections. Democrats swept both of the 2017 gubernatorial races, in New Jersey and Virginia, captured a U.S. Senate seat in ruby-red Alabama, and scored strong state legislative gains across the country. While no special elections have shifted House seats from the Republican to the Democratic side, in the four GOP-held districts that theoretically could have changed hands, Republicans ran 8 points behind the party’s typical performance. …
So what could calm or even reverse the hurricane-force winds that are currently blowing from right to left? CONT.
Charlie Cook