… At-risk Democrats are trying to tell two different stories to two separate audiences this cycle. Call it playing an outside and inside game—galvanizing the base while assuring the press that everything’s under control. Along with panic-stricken emails about negative polls, voters’ email boxes have been cluttered with ominous warnings about the marauding Koch brothers and how incumbents are being outspent. In the meantime, the message in Washington is that Democrats’ chances of holding the Senate have improved markedly over recent weeks. CONT.
James Oliphant, National Journal