The latest set of polls are not good What is especially disturbing is the time they are coming. This is the end of September , the time when people are starting to focus on the elections and they are the ones showing the Republicans gaining ground. Of course the next set , as Nate Cohn pointed out. could point to a different scenario, but another show of numbers like this, we have to face the obvious
We could lose the Senate:
What exactly are the consequences?
I guess Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell reverse rolls ! The GOP continues to be unpopular with over 70% disapproval rate. Democrats like Elizabeth Warren, and Al Frankel can be the "spoilers" and hold up everything (remember the GOP will only have a one-two seat majority at the most)
Nothing will get done!
The GOP will continue its assault on immigration (its what their base wants - send them back) They , unlike the Democrats, listen to their base. They will continue to anger the growing Latino and Asian populations setting up the stage for another massacre in 2016.
They will try to pass another round of spending and tax cuts (which the public does not want)
They will try to go after Hillary Clinton - more Benghazi hearing Hillary is a fighter and prove nothing.if there was some damaging evidence, it would have been uncovered by now.
So , this sounds bad but not terrible and the same people (Nate Silver, Charlie Cook) who predict the GOP taking the Senate in 2014 also predict them loosing it in 2016
As Charlie Cook jokingly implied - "People will realize why they hate the GOP"
Look, I don't want this to happen but its a reality we have to face!
We work on our ground game(we do it better than they do) knock on doors, make calls but we could still loose .