Real Clear Politics: Republicans Are Favored to Win the Senate
Recently there has been a spate of stories about Republicans’ difficulties in taking over the Senate. These analyses typically focus on candidates’ poor polling numbers in key states and the weakness of the Republican recruiting class.
These aren’t absurd analyses; I’ve referred to the battle between the overall electoral environment and Republican candidate quality as “the irresistible force versus the immovable object” in previous columns. Had the Republican Party fielded its A-team in states like Georgia, Pennsylvania and Arizona, we probably would not be talking about Democrats even having a shot at retaining the Senate.
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WNU Editor: I agree with the above conclusions. There is going to be a lot of protest votes against President Biden, and a large number of soft-Democrat no-shows at the ballot box.
There are not many vulnerable Democrats running for re-election this year, but all the Republicans need is a pick-up of one US Senate seat to gain control.
Update: There is a definite shift in demographics on who supports the Republican and Democrat parties .... The Democratic electorate's seismic shift (Axios).
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