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Bloomberg:
Will Republicans Blow It?
Yes. As long as we don't sit on the sidelines.
"The Democrats are hanging around," said South Dakota Senator John Thune, who is helping raise money this week for the National Republican Senatorial Committee [...]
That's bringing back bad memories for Republicans who lived through the 2010 and 2012 election cycles, when a spate of fatally flawed candidates cost the GOP opportunities to win control of the Senate. One veteran Republican strategist said the thought of choking again sends a shiver down his spine.
Washington Post:
For months, the 2014 midterm election has looked like a deck stacked in favor of Republicans.
But as campaign season heads into its final weeks, some wild cards are now on the table in states where the GOP had been expecting easy victories on its way to gaining six seats for control of the Senate [...]
GOP donors are uneasy. At private fundraising receptions this month for Senate Republicans, some of them brought up concerns about Roberts.
This election season is nowhere near being decided, no matter the media's incessant insistence of a GOP wave. It's a 50-50 race. We're in strong position to pick up a
significant number of governorships. We could theoretically get out of this election without losing any Senate seats or even gaining one (with loses in WV and MT offset by gains in KS, GA, or KY). Is that likely? No, but it's within the realm of possibilities—
IF WE DON'T SIT ON THE SIDELINES.
I know the party committees love to send out those WE ARE DOOOOOMED! emails, and claim that they generate far more contributions than hope and optimism. I'm sure they're right. Metrics and data don't lie on matters such as this one.
But I don't play that game. Here's the reality: If we engage and turn out our voters, we win. If not, we lose. And yes, that latter one would be kinda like DOOOOM, but I want to focus on what we CAN do, not what we won't do.
This cycle, we've had 75,000 Daily Kos readers give to one of our endorsed campaigns via ActBlue. That's a shit-ton of people! But here's the reality—that's only about 10 percent of our regular monthly readership. Now some can't afford to give, and that's okay. Some readers are Republicans checking in on the enemy, so they won't give to our candidates. They're busy rooting for Ted Cruz or something. Then there are casual passer-byers, who maybe stopped by because their friends posted a compelling headline on Facebook.
But even accounting for all that, there are still several million committed activists who haven't yet given to one of our campaigns. Three dollars, people. That's it. So join the 75,000 who have already given and get off that sideline. It'll make a huge difference, I promise.
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Three dollars, that is all. This election is balanced on a knife's edge. If you sit it out, then yeah, we might get some of that DOOOM after all.