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Cook Political Report on Tuesday shifted eight House races toward Democrats and two in favor of Republicans with 14 days to go before the midterm elections.
The nonpartisan election forecaster projected Democrats will have an edge in key swing districts following the party's massive fundraising haul in the third quarter of this year.
Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), who is facing off against independent candidate Alyse Galvin, moved from likely Republican to lean Republican after a recent poll showed the challenger within 2 points of the incumbent.
Florida's 6th, 15th and 27th congressional districts all are open seats shifted toward Democrats, moving from "likely Republican" to "lean Republican," "lean Republican" to "toss-up" and "toss-up" to "lean Democrat," respectively.
Arizona's 8th Congressional District, represented by Rep. Debbie Lesko (R), changed from "solid Republican" to "likely Republican." Lesko, who won the special election to replace former Rep. Trent Franks (R) earlier this year, is looking at a rematch with Hiral Tipirneni (D), who came up short in the special election.
Tipirneni more than doubled Lesko's fundraising in the third quarter.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/412700-cook-shifts-8-house-races-toward-dems
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)I am going to post positive news everyday until the election in order combat the other sort of news I see here (why)?
a kennedy
(29,644 posts)Need your positivity.
Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)tough but still to close to call. The House I really think we get.
LBM20
(1,580 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,868 posts)Full and complete endorsements tweets to a repub, I check the current 538 numbers on the race. Almost every one has at or near a double digit lead. That is so he can show that 90%+ of his candidates won.
Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)irresistable
(989 posts)He is a truly disgusting man.
Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)going to help the GOP win....I think just the opposite. Those who were already voting for him are lapping up the fear and hatred he is spewing...but others that the GOP needs not so much.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)to election. No crystal ball here, either, but the almost insane-sounding and viciously mean rhetoric his red-in-tooth-and-nail base may not work so well on others we need to not vote or vote against his "is a vote for me."
Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)regardless...not sure it works on others the GOP needs...I hope we have a huge blue wave.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)high numbers, but we don't know who how many are voting for...
"I care about babies at the border, and I care about babies in the womb." A young Republican mother who now knows she made a bad mistake in 2016 and isn't repeating it.
Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)We had a very big wave in 2015-2016, of course, until the last weeks, and even then a majority of Americans wanted Democrats to continue what we'd already started.
Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)We can do this!
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)percentage of the conservative turnout is voting Democrat, not voting for some Republicans, or writing in. It'll be very small percentage-wise, but that's what we need.
Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)and those folks would vote for him anyway. Surely, with a president like Trump Democrats will turn out...I say Democrats will turn out ...those who don't can call themselves what they want but ...are they Democrats?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)of 2 rallies a day until November 6, may well help us. I was sure he'd be able to get out almost all his base, but we have to hope his outrageous demagoguery and malicious actions andplans, including for healthcare and further persecution of children, are alarming, or at least offending, others.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Polls mean nothing without votes
Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)oasis
(49,370 posts)Raven123
(4,813 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)my mental count is somewhere aover 100, which includes:
likely R to lean R
Lean R to tossup
tossup to lean D
lean D to likely D