So what's our plan of attack for those 24 open (R) Senate seats?

[vi5]

I haven't heard anything really about any major contests, maybe since my state doesn't have anyone up this year.

So why don't we seem to be spending as much if not more time talking about this, and putting money and effort into this, which will be just as big a firewall against whatever happens in the Presidential election? 34 open Republican seats to our 10 Dem seats. This is a big opportunity as we only have to peel off a few.

Or are we doing what we normally seem to do and just fixating on the Presidential election and hoping that will solve all of our problems, while the Republicans play their usual solid ground game on state houses, the Senate, and everything else with even the smallest degree of political power.

Remember folks, "the president is not a king or a dictator". I think we've learned that lesson hard. So let's start talking about these other races. Give me some folks I can donate to or help out because as I said I'm not hearing as much due to my state not having a horse in the race.

[Matt_in_STL]

1. That would be a great question for Debbie Wasserman Schultz

She probably hasn't put too much thought into them though, short of not caring if they go Dem or not.

[kydo]

2. Surrender, we are after all democrats

We got cats to herd, weed to smoke and tie dye shirts to wash.

j/k but you are right. I know Clinton was fundraising over the weekend for other dems. And I know I will vote for people that D's next to their names.

[treestar]

3. I could not agree more

We need to list those seats up for grabs And get DUERS of the states on question to chime on.

[beachbum bob]

4. lots of info out there....here in Illinois Tammy Duckworth will take Sen Mark Kirks seat for sure

wisconsin, ohio gop seats are definitely in play too....there could be as many 6-8 gop seats democrats can get depending on who the gop nominee is....if trump we could see 8....as so many people will come out to vote against his sorry ass...and gop establishment is in a free fall right now


http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/273631-ten-senate-seats-most-likely-to-flip-in-2016

[napi21]

5. First, since these are State races, you'll only hear something if you

live in a State that has a Senate seat up for reelection. Second, if the seat is in a really red state (like Ga. where I live) there's probably nobody running against the incumbent.

I know I am getting a lot of emails re: senate seats like Nv, Fl, and some other iffy seats.

[DURHAM D]

6. Need some info?

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/273631-ten-senate-seats-most-likely-to-flip-in-2016

[brooklynite]

7. I've spoken to almost all of our Senate candidates...

First, this all assumes we hold CO (Bennett) and NV (Cortez-Masto)

We should take two R seats easily (Il: Duckworth and WI: Feingold)

We're leading or tied in three more (OH: Strickland, AZ: Kirkpatrick and NH: Hassan)

Electoral math should favor us in FL and PA, but we're tied up with Primaries right now (FL: Murphy/Grayson; PA: Sestak/McGinty)

Our odds are improving in MO (Kander) and NC (Ross)

[1StrongBlackMan]

11. And President Obama did his part ...

and McConnell played along.

[jwirr]

8. A great place to look is reddit.com/r/grassrootsselect

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. It's 24 open seats, isn't it?

I think that's correct.

[Zambero]

10. 24 of 34 contested seats are currently held by the GOP n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

19. Yes, just clarifying the OP's statement

They have more to protect than we do.

[vi5]

23. Thanks! I fixed it....

I saw it phrased poorly (ie the way I put it) in another article which is what led to my mistake. Thanks for the clarification.

[subterranean]

12. 34 total seats are up for election, 24 are Republican.

Illinois, Wisconsin and New Hampshire seem like good bets to turn blue, with Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania also in play. It will all come down to turnout on Election Day.

[Volaris]

14. If we can flip the Senate

We can spend the next 2 years hammering the GOP in the House for getting nothing useful passed, but ONLY IF a Blue Senate actually writes up legislation that doesn't suck for the unwashed masses

Free or greatly reduced public college tuition
Minimum Wage increases tied to the cost of living/inflation, (with a floor under it so we can begin the process of revalueing the dollar)
Medicare for ALL
PUBLICLY-FUNDED ELECTIONS
Etc.

Elect Bernie or not, the Path Forward for continued, grassroots, ground-up, center-out, MULTI-CYCLE pressure is now clear. NO ONE is getting elected so they can get RE-elected, they're getting elected elected so they can take this country back from the theives who think they own it and to destroy the careers of those who would pick the lock for their piddly-ass cut.
THAT should be 'the plan'.

Anything less, and Bernie may as well have stayed home.

[Hortensis]

13. Well, it's a question for you too, vi5.

Where is some, any information in your post? I agree it's way, way way past time to be paying real attention to this important stuff, though.

We don't have just one Senate strategy, of course. We don't have just one government, or just one party apparatus. The DSCC helps the various state parties and candidates, but by far most of the activity is at the candidate and state level. I just donate a little via monthly auto-pay to the DSCC as they are up on all the things I'd like to know but don't.

Obama's SCOTUS nomination strategy has an extremely important secondary function of making GOP Senators running for reelection look just as bad as they are. Hillary Clinton is fundraising for downticket candidates, including for the Senate.

We vote in Georgia, but chances of that going blue are nil. The interesting seat "closest" to us is the one Rubio let go in Florida. It's in play, lots of candidates, but none are big names in Florida, more like big men in their local ponds, so info on how they're doing is very squishy.

Alan Grayson, congressional flake, and Patrick Murphy, ex-Republican businessman, are competing from the Democratic Party. Murphy is heavily supported by their colleagues and the DSCC, so they think he's the best chance for beating the GOP,and they want Grayson to withdraw. Grayson makes the right kind of noise to draw support from the Sanders crowd. I don't know who's ahead, though -- last I looked it was Grayson somewhat but, again, a whole lot of people were polling "undecided."

The GOP race was overcrowded before with self-funding wealthy men, and another one got in recently. One relative moderate is ahead of the pack, but Trump could pull another more conservative one up. Again, too many unknowns and undecideds, and a big whatever because I don't want any of them of course.

[KamaAina]

15. Hammer them on SCOTUS

especially in light of Yertle's revelation that the NRA is blackballing Garland.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027700404

[yortsed snacilbuper]

16. We have three million registered Democrats in Pennsylvania,

and Toomey beat us like a rented mule?

[djean111]

17. I will be voting for Alan Grayson in the Florida primary for the Democrat to run for Rubio's seat,

and, of course, for Grayson in the GE.

I have donated to Canova, who is primarying Debbie Wasserman-DINO.

[SamKnause]

18. Thank you !!!

[Stinky The Clown]

20. Not to worry. The DNC's 50 state strategy will . . . . .

. . . . . oh . . . .wait.

Never mind

[So Far From Heaven]

21. Plan? What plan? We gots no plan. (nt)

[QC]

22. Debbie will get right on it as soon as she's finished

covering for the predatory lending industry.