@SeanTrende Interesting. An indication of generally worse R senate candidates?
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@DannyVinik I actually think it has something to do with the libertarians and good recruiting by Ds. -
@SeanTrende Hmm libertarian idea is interesting. Are the 14 R candidates that ran ahead from earlier in 2000s? Or scattered across years? -
@DannyVinik 6 in 00, 0 in 04, 4 in 08, 5 in 12. -
@SeanTrende Not much of a pattern. Thanks!
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Goes a long way toward explaining why the GOP doesn't control the Senate today despite having won solid control of the House.
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@StarzandStrypz Metro areas tend to be Democrat. Harder to get Republican Senators in many states.
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@VictorB123 There's some truth to that, but Dems still do a much better job recruiting good candidates in competitive states.@SeanTrende -
@StarzandStrypz Republicans COULD have had a winning R Senate candidate in DE, for example with Mike Castle. Ran O'Donnell
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@VictorB123 Yes. Then there's Sharron Angle, Rick Berg, Todd Akin, Dick Mourdock, Ken Buck... too many blown opportunities.@SeanTrende -
@StarzandStrypz But worse, those candidates primaried a candidate that was beating the Dem head to head.
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@VictorB123 "The GOP," as you put it, is to blame for passively sitting around & allowing a bunch of clowns to go unvetted b4 its too late. -
@StarzandStrypz Not really. In each of those cases the clown candidates were asked, begged, pleaded with not to run. They didn't just "sit"
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@SeanTrende That's bad, right? And how are you defining competitive, +/- how many points? -
@GWhistorian Just through experience and recollection.
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@SeanTrende@baseballcrank POTUS D, or POTUS R? -
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