06-20-2017, 11:57 PM
(06-20-2017, 11:51 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: I'm not sure if the fact that these special elections were so close (single digit wins in districts the GOP won by 15-30% months ago) is a reflection of Trump or the fact that special election turnout is lower.
Republicans will say "a win's a win" and Democrats will say "it gives us hope for the close races in 2018", but the reality is nothing has changed yet and we don't have a picture of 2018 from 4 random elections.
Scott Brown flat out won in insanely Democratic Massachusetts in a similar situation. This is a bad loss for the Dems, especially given the outside funding, and there is no spinning it otherwise. My hope is that they pull their heads out of their asses and start calling out the insane rhetoric on their side right now. We need to pull back towards the middle.
