2018 congressional races

Can Nunes survive another cycle? That may depend on DCCC recruitmentIn November, there was no Republican running for California's U.S. Senate seat-- just a conservative Democrat and a progressive Democrat.

Monday, the Cook Report listed 50 interesting facts about last month's midterm elections.

In 2016 Hillary scored 32.4% in UT-04. Last month, McAdams took 50.1%Last week, the National Journal's politics editor, Josh Kraushaar, tweeted about the DCCC' post-election analysis by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner.

2 GOP crooks-- Mark Harris and TrumpanzeeBy the end of last month, it was already obvious that North Carolina Trumpist, Mark Harris, had stolen both the GOP primary that ousted Robert Pittenger and then the general election in which he-- against all odds-- beat Blue Dog Dan McCready.

Sunday morning, we took a quick look at the Republican power play in Wisconsin, where, having lost complete control of the executive branch, they have now called a special lame duck session before Scott Walker is shown the door, to hobble Democratic governor-elect Tony Evers and attorney general-elect Josh

Is this why the GOP lost?The Republicans were shocked when the final vote count in CA-21, dealt them a 7th lost seat. No one really expected TJ Cox to beat David Valadao. The final forecast from FiveThirtyEight gave Valadao a 79% chance at reelection. The last public poll showed Valadao beating Cox 50-39%.

California made a big difference to the new Democratic majority in the House. With the final reversal in the Central Valley’s 21st district yesterday, a total of 7 Republican incumbents are being replaced by Democrats:

Probably the biggest surprise last Tuesday was in Oklahoma City, where Democrat Kendra Horn beat Republican incumbent Steve Russell in a race that virtually no one was following. First of all, everyone agrees that OK-05 is a "safe" Republican district; she will be the first Democrat to represent the district since the 1975.

A senior congressman who admires Pelosi and totally supports her for Speaker, and has even been publicly outspoken about it, just told me something that surprised me and depressed me: "I think," he said, "that Pelosi’s priorities are exactly in sync with the Democratic base, for better or worse. The whole thing has descended into a drunken orgy of demographic special interests and victim hagiography, completely untethered from economic meaning, who-

Last summer, as part of a discussion of some election themes, I suggested to this year's top political cartoonist in the country, Nancy Ohanian, to consider a graphic that depicts Trump as an albatross around the neck of the GOP. Above are a couple of her interpretations.