Senate Dems Don't Think The 2014 Elections Will Turn The Political Tide. Here's Why

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Senate Dems Don't Think The 2014 Elections Will Turn The Political Tide. Here's Why

By Sam Stein and Michael McAuliff at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/22/senate-dems-wave-election_n_5863224.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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"He’s right," National Republican Senatorial Committee communications director Brad Dayspring said of Cecil’s theory of dynamic issues. "There isn't a single dominant issue, but there's a handful of issues that are prevalent, each cutting against incumbent Democratic senators."

Chief on Dayspring's list of topics that collectively will doom Democrats this fall is the president's health care law, which has remained unpopular even though it isn't producing the grim scenarios once envisioned. Obamacare remains a fixture in political ads, though Cecil says the percentage of advertising on the topic has decreased. But even on this front, other Republicans acknowledge that while the law has played to their advantage, there isn't much political gain left to churn out.

"It is kind of interesting," said Stu Stevens, Mitt Romney's top strategist in 2012. "A lot of Democrats say a lot of people aren't advertising on Obamacare, which means it is more popular. I don't think so. I just think everyone has made up their mind about it so it's not moving numbers."

The 2014 election, in the absence of one issue that resonates nationally, has become hard to define and a more provincial affair. Indeed, many of the issues that have commanded public attention -- from the Edward Snowden leaks to foreign policy challenges like the rise of the Islamic State -- are not overtly partisan.



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1. Is it just me or are the Republicans not quite as cocky as they

were a month ago?

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2. I think

They will beat Michelle Nunn in GA though. She's running horrible ads here.