Michigan is uausually a safe Democrat shithole. But this year, something different is going on. The open Senate seat being left by corrupt Democrat Carl Levin has moved from “Lean Democrat” in the Cook Political Report to toss-up. The Republican candidate is Former Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land. Every early poll on this race against likely Democrat challenger Gary Peters has shown Terri Lynn Land ahead of Peters. Of course it’s way early, the corrupt Democrat party of Michigan will have plenty of tricks up their sleeves, and Michigan is a deep blue Democrat state. That being said Charlie Cook has still moved this race from Lean-D to Toss-Up which puts another Senate seat in the mix for Republicans to gobble up is they don’t somehow screw it up. The main states of focus of course are Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia which are three likely Republican gains in the Senate. Then you have the Democrats who voted for ObamaCARE in red states like Louisiana, Alaska, Arkansas and North Carolina. Add in Iowa and Colorado as possible GOP targets, and you really have a chance to get a solid Republican majority in the Senate starting in 2015. Again, this all depends on if the GOP doesn’t screw this up like they are so good at doing. Maybe even Minnesota will wake up and realize they elected an assclown to the senate in Al Franken, but I’m not holding my breath.
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| Michigan Senate race moves from Lean-D to Toss-up |
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The money shift away from attacks on GOP incumbents will allow the NRCC to become even more aggressive in attacking the Democratic Party incumbents.
A similar process is happening in the Senate races. The GOP needs to win at least six seats to wrest control from the Democrats. But the GOP is becoming competitive in more states every week. Why they won’t necessarily win all those competitive seats, they are forcing the Democrats to spread out their money and spend to support incumbents that a few weeks ago they didn’t expect to need aggressive support.
Last month the Cook Political Report moved four Democratic Party-held states in our direction. New Hampshire went from Likely D to Lean D, and North Carolina, Alaska, and Louisiana are now considered Toss Ups (joining Arkansas and Michigan in that column). This brings the total number of seats held by Democrats that are rated as Toss Up, Lean R, or Likely R to eight. But the pressure goes beyond those eight