MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
Republicans concede that a handful of once-competitive battlegrounds are nearly out of reach for them in 2018
By Gabriel DeBenedetti & Daniel Straus @ Politico.com, Jan. 14
[....] The GOP is forced to defend 13 states that former President Barack Obama won — from Maine to New Mexico to Wisconsin — while Democrats are protecting just one — Pennsylvania — that fell to Trump.
Republicans now admit that a handful of once-competitive battlegrounds are nearly out of reach for them in 2018. Meanwhile, Democratic hopes are rising in a handful of conservative strongholds [.....]