Republicans could lose the Senate despite getting serious electoral ground across the country.

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So we have a bunch of results from Republican primaries across the country.

And what they are showing is sort of a mixed record of candidate selection from Republicans.

This has not been a sort of major surprise given the fact that Republicans very often

nominate candidates in what are supposed to be wave years who are kind of sketch. You remember

this in 2010. There were a bunch of Republican candidates in what should have been lean our races,

who seemed out of the box and then ended up losing very winnable races. Republicans have an

unfortunate tendency in primaries to select the people who they think are the most passionate, the most

potentially game-changing, and then those people go on to lose the general election. Famously,

William F. Buckley suggested that the art of politics when it comes to primary voting is to select

the rightmost candidate who can win.

And very often Republican voters forget that last part of the sentence, who can win and they just select the right most candidate. An understandable mistake, this is complicated by cross currents

from President Trump because so much of American politics has now become a litmus test on loyalty.

And so when President Trump attacks a candidate, very often people resonate to the

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