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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 02:38 PM Mar 2016

Non-partisan analyst flips 10 House races to favoring Democrats

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/house-races/273565-analysts-new-house-rankings-favor-dems-in-10-races

House Democrats received a bit of good news on Friday: The nonpartisan Cook Political Report changed the ratings of 10 House races in Democrats’ favor.

And given the unpredictable nature of this cycle, the elections and campaigns newsletter said it could not be certain Republicans will hold the House in November.

“So many assumptions have been wrong this cycle that it's difficult to be definitive about another: that the House majority won't be in play in 2016,” wrote longtime Cook political analyst David Wasserman.

While a Donald Trump or Ted Cruz nomination “wouldn’t guarantee a down-ballot disaster,” Wasserman wrote, it would make congressional races much more difficult to predict, especially if Trump becomes the GOP standard bearer.


Could we take the House back from Jerry Mander?!
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Non-partisan analyst flips 10 House races to favoring Democrats (Original Post) KamaAina Mar 2016 OP
Trump and/or Cruz may give the Democrats control of the House Gothmog Mar 2016 #1
The best they can do is narrow the R control nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #2
Do not believe a word out of Wellstone ruled Mar 2016 #4
I Think the Term "Flipped" is Inaccurate Stallion Mar 2016 #3
That would be amazing! mcar Mar 2016 #5
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
4. Do not believe a word out of
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 03:14 PM
Mar 2016

Wasserman's pie hole. It will take at least 2 election cycles and Redistricting of 2020 providing the Dems take back several Red State Legislatures. Love the folks who eat at the DNCC trough of B.S..

Stallion

(6,476 posts)
3. I Think the Term "Flipped" is Inaccurate
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 03:00 PM
Mar 2016

really he changed the status-some went from say Solid Republican to just Leading Republican-but a good sign nonetheless

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