Democrats are pulling together a flurry of last-second activity in usually blue territory. gdebenedetti reports on the effort to avoid a potential midterm rout
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Most of the national party’s concern focuses on Senate races that were always thought to be competitive but that Democrats were assumed to have an advantage in until recently. Polling averages now show the races in both Pennsylvania and Georgia as dead heats, for example, after months of Democratic leads.
Evidence of closing-stretch nerves has not exactly been in short supply even beyond the Senate contests. New York governor The amped-up worries come in large part thanks to a spree of unfriendly polls and independent evaluations. These have been landing at a rapid-enough clip to make political pros ignore the fact that both parties regularly reach into unlikely territory in the closing days of campaigns. Hillary Clinton’s nominal late-2016 investments in Texas come to mind, as do Trump’s 2020 visits to Minnesota.
The issue is that this consolidation is happening quickly and that it is bringing some previously undecided voters with it just as many Democrats are working to ensure their solid supporters stick with them and actually vote. For this, most of the strategists close to Biden’s White House blame the grim national mood around the economy. Independents “break against the party when you have economic diagnostics like we’re seeing. End of story, done,” Biden’s other pollster, John Anzalone,.
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