Makes for a great week for America
The blue wave that Democrats are counting on to win the day in November, and the Congress with it, just can’t seem to break out of the swamp. This week’s party primaries were counted on to produce candidates moderate enough, or at least sane enough, to restore credibility to Democratic prospects.
It didn’t happen quite that way.“Tuesday,” observes The Washington Post, the house organ of the party, “was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for Democratic moderates. The success of very liberal candidates in primaries across four states is causing a new bout of heartburn among party strategists who worry about unelectable activists thwarting their drive for the House majority.”
Indeed.
It’s going to take more than Alka-Seltzer to relieve that heartburn. The Democrats start with a severe handicap in the Senate. They hold 24 of the seats (plus two independents who caucus with them) up for election this year, and Republicans have to defend only 9. With a 51 to 49 split, every seat matters, and the results on Tuesday were good news for the president and his party.
Democratic prospects in the House of Representatives are better, but still muddy. The Democrats should gain seats, as opposition parties almost always do in the midterms, but Republicans now have a few things going for them this year. The economy is going gangbusters, with unemployment below 4 percent. The generic ballot polling shows that the Democrats hold only a 3-point lead over the Republicans, down from double digits several weeks ago
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