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tgards79

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Thu Sep 20, 2018, 05:18 PM Sep 2018

BTRTN Senate and House Mid-Term Snapshot: Split Decision Highly Likely with 46 Days To Go

Detailed analysis of the current state of play of the mid-terms, election by election:
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2018/09/btrtn-senate-and-house-mid-term.html

"These have been an enormously consequential last 30 days in American politics, and not a good one for Donald Trump and the GOP. We have witnessed the Manafort and Cohen convictions, the Bob Woodward book and the anonymous New York Times op-ed, and now the uproar over the Brett Kavanaugh nomination to the Supreme Court. Each has rocketed some horrific aspect of the Trump presidency – the corruption, dysfunction, the assault on women – to daily headline status. An already wretched electoral environment for the GOP in the mid-terms has unarguably gotten worse.

And yet, there has been little material change in the prospects for November outcomes. Since our last “snapshot” a month ago, the headline..."

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