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I hope that is the case, and it may be. I'm a little skeptical for a couple of reasons. Kentucky went red in 2008, and even more red in the 2012 presidential elections. Rand Paul crushed his Democratic opponent. McConnell runs great great campaigns and has the war-chest to resource it.
There are plenty of Democrats in Kentucky, but the challenge for the last 20 years has been driving them to the polls. That's additionally complicated if progressive votes are being stolen by the Dem-turned-independent who is running to the left of Grimes.
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I also think Susan Collins from Maine could be vulnerable.
I'm not sure there's another Senate candidate in the entire country with approval ratings over 50% across party lines. The Democratic base in the Portland area will not revolt against her in the general, and more conservative primary challengers have polled terribly against her in the primary.
With Michaud going for the Governor's office, I think the only viable Democrat challenger is out of the Senate race (short of George Mitchell rolling the clock back and hitting the campaign trail).
She strikes a good independent tone for Maine, and she was a warbly voice of reason during this absurd crisis.
I think she wins with close to 60% of the vote, like she did last time against 6 term Democratic Congressman Tom Allen amid an anti-Republican election cycle.
If it's any consolation, the last few weeks are usually as bad as it gets for the employment market in the Washington, D.C. area. A 16-day government shutdown is a wakeup call for people to get serious and things typically do go uphill from here. Besides, nobody actually lost their job or their pay.
So, in the grand scheme of things it's not that bad even though it's been nerve-wracking.
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I don't think that a grand bargain deficit reduction deal is much more than a dream to begin with, but I think the conferees appointed to the bi-cameral budget talks pretty much assures it won't be successful.
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1. Republicans have mis-calculated what American people wanted
2. Republicans understand and know something that average American's don't understand, as Alexis de Tocqueville wrote 200 years ago. Then again, Alexis de Tocqueville said a lot.
3. I can't imagine this happening again, after the polling with elections coming up. But, it's either it's crazy or it's revolutionary.
I'm so conflicted. More I read, and know, more I'm confused about an issue, no matter how simple the answer and conclusion is, my mind goes nuts.
I wonder how worse we are now given the whole spin of things vs the shutdown, especially after that quote I mentioned turned out to be entirely untrue.
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