With THIRTY FIVE* senate seats up for election, does anybody else

[niyad]

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wonder what is going on with all the others, when msm attention is so narrowly focused? A number of our DU'ers are working tirelessly to get the word on ALL the elections, a truly monumental task, and I am most grateful.

THANK YOU!!!

Actually, 35, witth the two special elections in Florida and Ohio to replace couchhhumper and l'il marco, as Wiz Imp reminded us!

[Cha]

1. Yes, We have to Win the Midterms to get

anything done. Nobody is going to do it alone.

Mahalo, niyad!

[SheltieLover]

2. Mahalo, Cha!

Well stated.

Aloha 🌺

[Cha]

7. Mahalo to you, Sheltie!🌺

I hope so many realize that. We need to win as many Democratic elections as humanly possible all over the Country.

[SheltieLover]

8. Yes we do!

🌺

[MustLoveBeagles]

10. We do

[niyad]

3. Thank you, my friend,

[Cha]

9. You are Welcome!! ☮️💙🌻🕯️🕊️

[littlemissmartypants]

22. HEAR!! HEAR!! 🫡 🇺🇲✊️

[Cha]

31. Mahalo, pants!☮️💙🌻🕯️🕊️

[littlemissmartypants]

32. Love you, Cha. ❤️

[Cha]

35. ☮️💙🌻🕯️🕊️

[sheshe2]

4. Every state is important.

...and a huge thank you to Randy SF for keeping us informed.

Thank you niyad!

[Initech]

5. And we must fire Trump and this hideous administration.

And then make his real employer, Rupert Murdoch, face justice for the absolute hell Fox has wrought on our country.

[sheshe2]

6. I would be fine with all that.

[MustLoveBeagles]

11. Agreed

Though it's not just FOX anymore.

[littlemissmartypants]

24. Almost the entire fucking media market is skewed authoritarian.

We're fed bullsh¡t regularly. It's insidious!

❤️

[Cha]

33. Strong stomach to take it, pants.

I had to cancel all media******, cable everything in November 2002 because of the way they covered for Bush.

Just stayed on DU, and we know it only got exponentially worse

☮️💙🌻🕯️🕊️

[littlemissmartypants]

34. I understand! We have to preserve our sanity and maintain hope. ❤️

[littlemissmartypants]

23. And Wednesdays, too.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/~Wednesdays

https://www.democraticunderground.com/~RandySF

❤️🤍💙

[2naSalit]

12. K&R

[niyad]

14. Thank you.

[Wiz Imp]

13. Here's the current chances for a Dem victory in each race according to Race to the White House

who has an extremely good track record. https://www.racetothewh.com/senate/26#google_vignette

Current Dem held seats:
Massachussetts 99.2%
Rhode Island 99.1%
Virginia 99.1%
Oregon 98.6%
New Jersey 98.4%
Illinois 98.2%
Colorado 97.7%
New Mexico 97.5%
Delaware 97.0%
Minnesota 94.7%
Georgia 94.2%
New Hampshire 82.2%
Michigan 70.2%

Current Republican held seats:
North Carollina 90.5%
Ohio 74.7%
Maine 65.8%
Texas 63.2%
Alaska 55.2%
Iowa 24.6%
Florida 23.3%
Nebraska 20.7%
Montana 11.4%
South Dakota 5.2%
Mississippi 3.8%
South Carolina 3.2%
Alabama 2.3%
Oklahoma 2.2%
Tennessee 1.5%
Wyoming 1.5%
West Virginia 1.1%
Idaho 0.9%
Kentucky 0.8%
Arkansaa 0.6%

[niyad]

15. Thank you for this most informative link..

[TheRickles]

16. So the odds at the moment favor flipping 5 Senate seats from R to D? Wow!!!

[Wiz Imp]

19. Yes, when looking at each race individually.

Collectively, it projects the Democrats will wind up with 50.7 seats (51 rounded) and their overall chances of winning a majority are at 51.3%. Less than 2 months ago, the Democrats' chances of winning a majority were just 43.3%. At the the beginning of the year, the odds were at just 35.1%. Momentum is strongly on the side of Democrats.

[bsiebs]

17. Wow.. that's pretty encouraging! Thanks for posting!

[annielion]

18. Thanks. That's great info.

[Wiz Imp]

20. There's actually 35 Senate races this year so I missed 2 states in my previous post.

Both are seats currently held by Republicans.

Kansas 12.7%
Louisiana 6.0%

The reason for 35 is Ohio and Florida have "special" elections because their Senators were appointed in 2025 (to replace Vance & Rubio).

[mr715]

29. I'm surprised Alaska is that low...

I thought Peltola was outpolling Sullivan and more likely to win than Talarico.

[Wiz Imp]

36. THat race completely flipped in mid -April. Since then, it's shown little movement.

But as as recently as late March, Sullivan was at over 65% likelihood to win so the momentum is strongly on Peltola's side.

Texas spiked dramatically as soon as Paxton won the runoff.

[mr715]

39. Thx for the insight

[littlemissmartypants]

21. Excellent point, sis. It's pretty remarkable that as we live in ...

The so-called "information age" our mass media are full of authoritarian bullsh¡t. It's a scrambled, almost entirely useless mess.

❤️

[niyad]

25. Thank you, sis. I rarely bother with msm. I check The Guardian, DW, AFP, a few

others. Depressing that we used to have legitimate news sources, now we have faux snooze and the wannabes ( geez, sounds like a great name for a band! )

[littlemissmartypants]

30. "faux snooze and the wannabes" is only great as a name for a band.

A really, really bad country music band.

😜❤️

[niyad]

37. So true!

[littlemissmartypants]

40. Can you tell country music doesn't thrill me? It's all I heard growing up.

One of the first records that I bought was Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper. My mother promptly broke it in half over her knee after I played it umpteen times one Sunday afternoon.

All those waitressing tips wasted.

Hahahaha! Memories. I really miss my mother, though. She was my best friend.

Neither of my parents supported my recreational choices at that time.

Daddy made me watch as he flushed my weed down the toilet.

I have some stories I could tell.

There isn't a tale close to those in our current psychopathic government, though.

❤️

[niyad]

42. Big bands, Lawrence Welk, Mitch Miller at our house. And then,

finally, a transistor radio for me for the "new" music of the 60's. I was diferent than most of my classmates, the bookworm who spent time demanding things from school boards, churches, basically all authority figures. Which I have been doing ever since. But, as you said, nothing like the psychopathic ones we have now.

So when are you going to share these stories?

[aggiesal]

26. Why would I care about Senate seats we know (D)'s will win? ....

I prefer MSM concentrate on Senate races we can flip or defending tight (D) Senate races.
Anyway, that's how I feel.

[niyad]

27. Perhaps because, given all the dirty tricks, we dare take nothing

for granted?

[aggiesal]

38. Wasting money on sure things n/t

[niyad]

41. NOTHING is a "sure thing" with this lawless regime! Absolutely NOTHING.

[Skittles]

28. yup

makes me wonder a LOT, WTF is going on

[kentuck]

43. Democrats tend to do better in races that are not highly reported.

Because Republicans thrive on controversy and lies. A head-on battle in the corporate media is usually not in the Democrats favor. It's difficult to win a wrestling match with a pig. You get all muddy and exhausted and the pigs rather love it.