Republicans Need a Villain for the Midterms
With the GOP currently running everything, coming up with a suitably electrifying bogeyman could prove challenging.<br />
by Michelle Cottle
Sep 02, 2017
3 minutes
Like most politics of late, the 2018 elections promise to be wild and weird. For starters, midterms typically serve as a referendum on the sitting president—which should be fabulous news for Democrats, given that Donald Trump’s favorability numbers are now smaller than his waistline. Except! When one peruses the actual electoral map, the House, Senate, and gubernatorial landscapes all favor Republicans.
As for turnout, while the GOP’s base (read: old, white folk) is usually far better about voting in non-presidential years than the Democrats’ (read: young ‘uns and minorities), Dems are unusually
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