DEMOCRATS/SOCIALISTS BRACE AGAINST POTENTIAL 2018 SENATE ‘DISASTER,’ AND THE MATH IS NOT THEIR FRIEND!

By Jonathan E.P. Moore, and Friends of America!
DEMOCRATS/SOCIALISTS BRACE AGAINST POTENTIAL 2018 SENATE ‘DISASTER,’ AND THE MATH IS NOT THEIR FRIEND!

Democrats reeling from a devastating election face a daunting task: the 2018 Senate map.

It favors Republicans in a big way. The GOP will be defending just eight seats, while Democrats must fight for 23 — plus another two held by independents who caucus with Democrats. What’s worse is the fact that many of the seats they must defend are in states won by Republican Donald Trump!

With the afterglow of the election favoring, for the first time in a long time, the ‘will’ of the American people, A.K.A., the silent majority, it’s time, unlike Obama’s first 2 years in office, to

take the time to expose the underbelly of the new Socialist/old Democratic party’s failure to communicate with the people of the most powerful and exceptional country in the world!

Democrats’ 2018 map looks practically unnavigable. The party starts with five ruby-red seats to defend: Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia. Then, Democrats have a slew of Senate seats up in traditional swing states, including Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Tim Kaine’s state of Virginia!

However far off it may seem, the consequences of the 2016 election are already hitting home for lawmakers preparing to defend their seats in 2018. They are also very aware that it could lead, like clockwork, to a very bad midterm election for Senate Democrats in two years!

“[Democrats] have not figured out how to translate Hillary’s presidential failure into midterm success. And even worse, this time we have a candidate who should have won by default,” said one Democratic strategist who has worked on Senate races. “It’s going to be a disaster.”

Much will depend on how Donald J. Trump decides to wield his power in the White House and on Capitol Hill. Some Democrats blame their big 2010 midterm losses on the party’s embrace of divisive policies, like cap and trade and health care reform, in the wake of President Barack Obama’s victory. Voters already had more unfavorable opinions of both Clinton and Trump than they did of Obama when he faced a midterm wipeout in 2010. And a new presidential agenda could put red-state Democrats in a tough spot immediately in 2017.

“Voters are good about keeping this country in check,” said Adrianne Marsh, a Democratic strategist who managed Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill’s 2012 reelection bid. “In many ways perception is reality, and if people perceive that there’s a power shift that’s getting out of hand, they’re going to react to it, making the midterm more challenging for us than it might have been.”

Senators are already laying groundwork for 2018 before voting even started in 2016, and politically charged Supreme Court nominations could be the first issue on tap for the Senate after the 2016 election is over.

“When you think about those vulnerable senators, I think you would have to consider: If Hillary

Clinton won you already know she would have put up a liberal, pro-EPA judge to replace Scalia, and how do you think Joe Manchin and Heidi Heitkamp would have voted on that?

TRUMP MUST, LIKE OBAMA DID TO GET OBAMACARE THROUGH THE SENATE BY WAY OF THE NUCLEAR OPTION, PASS VOTER ID LAWS TO PREVENT ANOTHER OBAMA 'ENCOURAGEMENT TO ILLEGALS' TO VOTE WHEN IT COMES TO THE SENATE ELECTIONS IN 2018!
DRAIN THE SWAMP! ESPECIALLY WITH WHAT WE KNOW NOW ABOUT OBAMA’S TIES TO SOCIALISM AND THE GUIDING FORCE BEHIND HIS UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACTIONS!

WHO ELSE IS HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT WITH THE SAME ANTI-AMERICAN PLAN?

"Obama can be linked to Democratic Socialists of America," and that should matter to you when decision making in 2018!

Writing in the radical (and Democratic Socialists of America connected) Chicago magazine In These Times, in March 2008, Joel Bleifuss asserted;

Obama can be linked to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the Democratic Party-oriented organization that is a member of the Socialist International

Democratic Socialists of America.

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the largest socialist organization in the US. It is one of

two official U.S. affiliates of the Socialist International. It was formed in 1982 from a merger of the Michael Harrington led Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and the smaller New American Movement.

DSA works inside the Democratic Party and has cross membership with the Communist Party USA, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, Socialist Party USA and the Green Party USA.

DSA has close ties to the radical Institute for Policy Studies, ACORN, Jobs with Justice, Congressional Progressive Caucus and publications including Dissent, The Nation and The American Prospect.

Socialist Scholars Conferences.

Barack Obama makes an apparent reference to the Socialist Scholars Conference in his 1995 autobiography "Dreams from My Father"

Discussing his time studying political science at New York's Columbia University, in the early 80s, Obama reveals that he "went to socialist conferences at Cooper Union and African cultural fairs in Brooklyn.”

Other speakers came from the Communist Party USA and its offshoot, the Committees of Correspondence, the International Socialists and Freedom Road Socialist Organization as well as independent Marxists, Maoists, Trotskyites, black radicals, gay activists and radical feminists.

Barack Obama wrote of "conferences" plural, indicating his attendance was not the result of accident or youthful curiosity.

Obama appointments-DSA connected.

The Obama administration has appointed several people with Democratic Socialists of America connections to key government positions.

Ron Bloom: Manufacturing Czar.

David Bonior: Member of the Obama Economic Transition Team-

now delegated by president Obama to negotiate the unification of the AFL-CIO and Change to Win labor federations.

Rosa Brooks: Senior advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Michele Flournoy.

Carol Browner: Energy Czar/Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy.

Heather Higginbottom: Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, formerly with the Obama for America campaign

Samantha Power: National Security Council, as director for multilateral affairs.

Hilda Solis: Secretary of Labor.

CHECK OUT THESE POSSIBLE SENATE MEMBERS WHO ARE LOOKING TO COME BACK TO THE SENATE IN 2019!

Here are 10 Senate seats that could flip, in alphabetical order:

Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)

Democrats came into 2016 bullish about the Sunshine State.

But Republican incumbent Marco Rubio’s decision to run for reelection cleared the muddled field and, ultimately, a surge in rural Republican voters outpaced Democrats’ gains in cities and with Hispanics. When the dust settled, Trump won by 1 percentage point, while Rubio held on to his seat by 8 points.

Nelson, a three-term senator, is a well-known commodity in Florida, having held public office there since 1972. And he starts with a net 14-point approval rating, per an October poll from

Public Policy Polling.

Possible challengers could include term-limited Gov. Rick Scott (R), a Trump ally, or any of the politicians who eyed the seat in 2016, including outgoing GOP Reps. David Jolly or Ron DeSantis.

Millionaire Carlos Beruff and Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera, both 2016 candidates, could also jump in. But the two are Scott allies, so it’s unlikely either would challenge the governor should he decide to run.

Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.)

No state’s Senate race changed more in 2016 than Indiana’s. Republicans started the cycle looking likely to keep control of outgoing Sen. Dan Coats’s seat with Democratic Rep. Barron Hill in the race. Then it seemed destined to go Democratic once Hill dropped out and former Sen. Evan Bayh jumped in.

But a flurry of damaging stories and revelations stunted Bayh’s comeback, giving Rep. Todd Young a 10-point win behind Trump’s 19-point victory.

Donnelly seemed to have an uphill battle against Sen. Richard Lugar (R) in 2012, until the incumbent was toppled by former Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock. Look for a much tighter race now, with potential GOP candidates such as Reps. Luke Messer, Susan Brooks or Marlin Stutzman, who ran in the primary this past spring, in the mix.

Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.)

Democrats are fresh off a tight loss challenging Republican Sen. Roy Blunt's reelection and now must pivot to defending one of their own. Democrat Jason Kander fell to Blunt by 3 points, while Trump won the state by 19 points.

McCaskill has won tough races before — she defeated incumbent Republican Sen. Jim Talent for

her seat in 2008 and dispatched Rep. Todd Akin in 2012, a race that had been considered close until Akin’s infamous comment about “legitimate rape.”

Republicans will likely eye the red-state seat as a major pickup opportunity, potentially by one of the state’s six GOP lawmakers.

Jon Tester (D-Mont.)

Tester steered the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 2016, so he’s led the party through its share of tough races. And winning as a Democrat in Montana is no easy feat. Trump won the Presidential vote by 21 points in Montana, but Gov. Steve Bullock (D) tapped into the state’s bipartisan leanings with his own 4-point win. GOP Rep. Ryan Zinke, the state’s only congressman, is best positioned for a potential Tester challenge.

Dean Heller (R-Nev.)

Nevada was one of the shining lights for Democrats up and down the ticket in 2016 — Clinton held the state by 2 points, the same margin that former state Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto defeated Republican Rep. Joe Heck by to win the open Senate seat.

That’ll give Democrats confidence coming into one of their few strong pickup opportunities of 2018.

Look for the scramble to start right back up, with names like Rep. Dina Titus and retiring Sen. Harry Reid’s son Rory leading the first round of speculation.

Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.)

North Dakota is another ruby-red state coming off a Republican blowout in 2016. Trump won by 36 points, Sen. John Hoeven won reelection by 62 points, and Republican Gov.-elect Doug Burgum

won by 58 points.

Rep. Kevin Cramer (R), the state’s only congressman, could entertain a bid against one of the Senate’s 21 women.

Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)

Brown’s populist streak has won him favor in Ohio for more than two decades, including two terms in the Senate, helping him win reelection in 2012 by 6 points.

But Ohio took a sharp turn in the GOP’s direction in 2016, with Trump winning by 8 points, a larger margin than each of the past five presidential elections there. And Sen. Rob Portman won by 21 points over his Democratic challenger, former Gov. Ted Strickland.

A term-limited Gov. John Kasich (R) could look to jump back to Congress, or state Treasurer Josh Mandel could look for a rematch against Brown, depending on who decides to run to replace Kasich.

Bob Casey (D-Pa.)

The Casey name has been in Pennsylvania politics for about a half-century, beginning with Casey’s father, who started in the state Senate in 1963 before stints as the auditor general and governor.

Casey has won big even in the tight state — he defeated incumbent GOP Sen. Rick Santorum by 18 points in 2006 and won reelection by 9 points in 2012.

This year, GOP Sen. Pat Toomey won reelection by 2 points, bucking all the polls, and the electorate only stands to become more favorable for Republicans in an off year.

Potential candidates could include two early Trump backers in Congress, Reps. Lou Barletta and Tom Marino, or others such as Rep. Pat Meehan. State Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman is another who could consider a bid, but many are in a holding pattern until Gov. Tom Wolf (D) decides whether he’ll seek reelection.

Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.)

Manchin’s decision to run for reelection boosted the hopes of Democrats looking to hold the deep-red state. Trump won the state by 42 points, but the Mountain State bucked the idea of voting straight ticket, electing Democratic coal executive Jim Justice to the governor’s mansion with a 7-point margin.

Republican state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey could consider a bid, as could GOP Reps. David McKinley, Alex Mooney or Evan Jenkins.

Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.)

The Wisconsin Republican infrastructure in the state helped Gov. Scott Walker win three elections in six years, including during the 2012 election that saw wins by both Baldwin and President Obama.

Trump’s 1-point victory there, as well as Johnson’s comeback 3-point victory, gives Republicans hope to build on those margins with a midterm electorate. Walker is likely to run for reelection, but his lieutenant governor, Rebecca Kleefisch, could decide to go national. Rep. Sean Duffy is another name mentioned as a potential Senate contender.

It’s time to vet these candidates to see if they supported Obama’s unconstitutional imperial presidency using his famous ‘Pen and Phone!’ Common sense questions like why Obama could run because the constitutional citizenship requirement was not met for him to be president? How about do they support

Globalism, Open borders, and spending one trillion dollars a year of taxpayer’s money to support the unvettable illegal immigrants and refugees? How about Comey’s criminal case against Hillary’s emails, and laying out the perfect case, but then letting her off after Bill and Loretta Lynch’s not so clandestine meet on the tarmac? I could go on, but I think you know where I’m coming from, and have some questions of your own to justify their continued existence in the Senate!

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