May I ask why this is so Out Of Reach if even Donnelly won it?
You say that as if Democrats should easily be able to perform better than Donnelly.
Tbf donnely was an idiot trying to appeal to rural hicks. A more suburban oriented campaign can win this distrift. These voters wanted to vote for him but he said build the wall
So they voted Republican? This makes no sense. Y'all think Donnelly would've done better if he had run a more progressive and socially liberal campaign, but why would they vote for a conservative Republican if indeed these people are socially liberal/economic moderate suburbanites. It would be like a choice between bad and worse, you'd vote for bad.
And I'm not going to buy that they stayed home as this election had record midterm turnout.