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« Reply #25 on: August 28, 2019, 02:55:47 PM »

More like emphasizing the point. Of course, there are other factors at work, but polarization will certainly make it a tough row for Democrats to cut through.

Polarization is so unbelievably strong that Larry Hogan can win by double digits in a Democratic tsunami in one of the most Democratic and "inelastic" states in the country and a Democrat can win a federal race in a Trump +42 state?

Polarization isn't the "end all, be all", but it has certainly made it more difficult for Democrats and Republicans alike to win on territory hostile to their party. Just look at the three Democratic Senators in strong Trump states who were defeated last year, in that same "wave" environment. And I've made clear that I believe Edwards will win reelection, but he will do worse than in 2015. Abraham is not a strong opponent, but he doesn't have the same kind of ethical or political baggage that Vitter did. And Mississippi is notorious for its racial polarization, and a gubernatorial race is quite different from an AG one.
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« Reply #26 on: August 28, 2019, 02:56:37 PM »

More like emphasizing the point. Of course, there are other factors at work, but polarization will certainly make it a tough row for Democrats to cut through.

Polarization is so unbelievably strong that Larry Hogan can win by double digits in a Democratic tsunami in one of the most Democratic and "inelastic" states in the country and a Democrat can win a federal race in a Trump +42 state?

Polarization isn't the "end all, be all", but it has certainly made it more difficult for Democrats and Republicans alike to win on territory hostile to their party. Just look at the three Democratic Senators in strong Trump states who were defeated last year, in that same "wave" environment. And I've made clear that I believe Edwards will win reelection, but he will do worse than in 2015. Abraham is not a strong opponent, but he doesn't have the same kind of ethical or political baggage that Vitter did. And Mississippi is notorious for its racial polarization, and a gubernatorial race is quite different from an AG one.
Sure, but you also had Democratic senators from WV and MT re-elected.
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« Reply #27 on: August 28, 2019, 04:41:45 PM »
« Edited: August 28, 2019, 04:47:31 PM by MT Treasurer »

Polarization isn't the "end all, be all", but it has certainly made it more difficult for Democrats and Republicans alike to win on territory hostile to their party.

There are several Democratic governors from red states and Republican governors from blue states. The only thing we know for sure is that it’s virtually impossible for a Republican to win a federal race in a Democratic state barring some very special circumstances like a low-turnout special election (and even then, MA-SEN 2010 is really the only example here), but that’s been the case since at least 2004. "Polarization" is hardly a recent phenomenon.

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Just look at the three Democratic Senators in strong Trump states who were defeated last year, in that same "wave" environment.

Two of these Democratic Senators were incredibly unpopular (McCaskill) or ran hilariously bad campaigns (Heitkamp) and still outperformed Clinton by a lot (and certainly by way more than they should have). I agree that Donnelly was probably always destined to lose, but keep in mind that a Democrat actually won a federal race in a Trump +42 state and Democrats were successful in defending several Trump states, including Republican-leaning MT and OH.

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And I've made clear that I believe Edwards will win reelection, but he will do worse than in 2015.

That remains to be seen. JBE definitely benefits from the the fact that his reelection race is an off-year election and no unpopular Democrat is in the White House. Even Hogan did better last year than in 2014 despite the national environment being the exact opposite of 2014. Popular incumbent governors generally don’t lose reelection.

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Abraham is not a strong opponent, but he doesn't have the same kind of ethical or political baggage that Vitter did. And Mississippi is notorious for its racial polarization, and a gubernatorial race is quite different from an AG one.

Agreed on Vitter (although I remember people here arguing that Vitter was a shoo-in because of "polarization", "inelastic Deep South" and "Obama" back in 2015, so these arguments aren’t even new), but MS has always been polarized, even when Hood kept winning by a landslide in his AG races. He clearly has a lot of crossover appeal, and the Democratic floor in MS is extremely high.
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« Reply #28 on: August 29, 2019, 12:51:12 AM »

KY Beshear 51/49
JBE 53/47
Hood 51/49

Dem sweep
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« Reply #29 on: August 29, 2019, 01:04:53 AM »

KY Bevin 49% - Beshear 46% - Hicks 5%

MS Reeves 55% - Hood 45%

LA runoff Edwards 54% - Abraham 46%
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« Reply #30 on: August 29, 2019, 07:22:38 PM »

LA will stay Democratic while KY and MS stay Republican.
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« Reply #31 on: August 29, 2019, 11:27:11 PM »

LA will stay Democratic while KY and MS stay Republican.
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You must doubt the wave, Beshear will win, we dont know about MS if Hood can get to 50
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« Reply #32 on: September 01, 2019, 01:17:02 PM »

KY
✓ Bevin (R, inc.): 56.2%
Beshear (D): 42.7%


LA
Bel Edwards (D, inc.): 48.6%
Abram (R): 39.5%

✓ Bel Edwards (D, inc.): 52.6%
Abram (R): 47.4%


MS
✓ Hood (D): 49.222%
Reeves (R): 49.198%


So SCOTUS strikes down the majority of state house districts clause in the MS constitution?
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