Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.
538 does its usual amazing job
breaking down the 2018 and future Senate races.
It should be subtitled: "we need to get rid of the Senate."
I like 538, but they missed the mark here or it was written by Scooby to get a rise out of people.
If we're using Presidential elections as our benchmark, Dem won 30+ seats in 92 and 96, 20 maybe in '00 and '04, 28 in 08, 26 in 12, and 21 maybe in '16. Far from a GOP lean what I see is a competitive map made up of multiple states that have backed either the GOP or Dems over that time even if we excluded 92 due to the Perot factor, we still have (NH, PA, VA, NC, GA, FL, WV, AR, TN, LA, MO, IN, MI, OH, WI, CO, NV, AZ) at the very least and include ME and NE if you factor in the 1 electoral vote that each side has one from those states. Now I don't expect Dem to start winning in LA, AR or WV again (Clinton in '96) but it proves that the right Dem candidate can prevail for Senate (Manchin) or Gov (Edwards) because voting Dem isn't foreign to these people unlike in say Utah or South Carolina.