Capitol Hill Blue Forums Hot Topics & Breaking News News GOP and Democrats All But Tied Going into Midterms

I can’t decide if I am going to go with 2 or 3 upsets, our 3 or 4 upsets where the results don’t match the polling. I’ll decide later in the future.

How you figger? It's two months until the elections. We're in the final quarter mile of this horse race.

And the horses are definitely not running side by side across the track toward the finish.

It's not even close to a tie. There will be no photo finishes...House Reeps are leading by 15 lengths...Senate Dems are leading by three.

Governorships and statehouse races are a different league...but the rules are the same and a win is a win. There will be thousands of elections nationwide on November 8th.

Would it be a tie if half of them were won by Democrats? Would it be a tie if half the voters voted for Reeps?

If it's a tie, will the competitors turn to each other, shake hands, and congratulate each other on a good race? Some will, some will act churlish...

And we, the voters, will accept the results and get on with our lives...

September is the official start of the campaign season. Everything prior has been pre-season speculation, forecasting and bantering. We still have some states who haven’t had their primaries yet. New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Rhode Island. The rosters aren’t completed yet. Until they are, I suppose you could call this pre-season games. We didn’t know who most of the candidates would be until August, the end of August. We all had ideas, but nothing official.

I usually look at the end of September as halftime, then the middle of October as the three quarter mark as each party makes its two week push to the finish line.

Yup, yup, and yup. I'll start paying attention to polls now.

I live in Washington state. I keep seeing ads put up by a sitting house member and she is a Democrat. She is putting up a lot of ads. Not once has she even mentioned her Republican opponent. Typical for a Democrat. They just don't seem to be able to go after the opposition. The opposition, incidentally, is raking her over the coals of liberalism, etc.

She will probably win just to make my own thoughts wrong. I think she should be going after somebody who believes the big lie, ranks on her regularly, supports the Republican plan to destroy Medicare and Social Security, etc. I guess its just not the Democratic way.

Campaign season never ends and never begins.

We've been in the regular season...these are the playoffs.

On Nov 8th we pull the trigger and see how things turn out.

It's like the Red and Blue Racing RollerCoasters!

It only stops long enough to exchange passengers.

The senate race in Washington is a given, Murray easily. Only 2 of Washington’s congressional races has attracted prognosticators attention. WA 8 and WA 3. WA 8 is rated as a pure tossup while WA 3 leans Republican. Meaning no change in whoever holds the other 8 seats. They’re forecasted to remain with the party that now holds them.

Me too! (Kitsap)

Nothing squeaky about them.

I'm gong to go with Pero on this one....with Donald Trump keeping his shenanigans front and center, it will cause voters to not necessarily vote for Democrats - but to vote against Donald Trump and his GOP-kiss ass hangers-on as these voters did in 2020.