We keep seeing a lot of posts about the coming ‘Blue Wave’ which is forecast to sweep the house, and possibly the senate too. Indeed, with our recent special election gains, we supposedly need only two wins to flip the senate, and several seats are already being sized up for the kill. To hear it said, things look great in ‘18.
But there is a fly in this ointment that no one seems to have noticed. At least I haven’t seen any posts on it. The Traitors have 10 senate seats up for grabs this fall, with several which look promising. But the Dems have 25 seats up…
...how many of those do we stand to lose?
We can flip the senate with only two wins provided we don’t lose any of ours. But for every loss we suffer, we must gain a Traitor seat to make it up — and we are bound to lose at least some. No doubt of those 10 Traitor seats, at least some are invulnerable. If we lose as few as 5 of ours, that will put the senate out of reach.
I don’t pretend to understand the current political scene well enough to be able to make realistic predictions, so I will put this to our election wonks: How many seats will the Traitors gain from us, and what does that mean for flipping the senate?
The critical undiscovered question of our times.