Number of cycles it will take Democrats to get 60 US Senate seats.

[nkpolitics1212]

2018-Democrats hold onto
Solid Democratic
VT-(Sanders-I/D)24
NY-(Gillibrand-D)25
HI-(Hirono-D)26
CA-(Feinstein-D)27
RI-(Whitehouse-D)28
WA-(Cantwell-D)29
DE-(Carper-D)30
MD-(Cardin-D)31
MA-(Warren-D)32
CT-(Murphy-D)33
NM-(Heinrich-D)34
Likely/Solid Democratic
MN-(Klobuchar-D)35
NJ-(Menendez-D)36
MI-(Stabenow-D)37
Likely Democratic
ME-(King-I/D)38
VA-(Kaine-D)39
Lean/Likely Democratic
PA-(Casey-D)40
WI-(Baldwin-D)41
MT-(Tester-D)42
Lean Democratic
WV-(Manchin-D)43
FL-(Nelson-D)44
OH-(Brown-D)45
Tossup/Lean Democratic
ND-(Heitkamp-D)46
MO-(McCaskill-D)47
IN-(Donnelly-D)48
Democrats pick up
NV (Heller-R)Titus-D 49
AZ (Flake-R)Sinema-D 50
TX (Cruz-R)O'Rourke-D 51
2020-Democrats hold onto
DE-(Coons-D)41
IL-(Durbin-D)42
MA-(Markey-D)43
MI-(Peters-D)44
MN-(Klobuchar-D)45
NH-(Shaheen-D)46
NJ-(Booker-D)47
NM-(Udall-D)48
OR-(Merkley-D)49
RI-(Reed-D)50
VA-(Warner-D)51
Democrats pick up
CO-(Gardner-R)Polis-D 52
GA-(Perdue-R)Ossoff-D 53
IA-(Ernst-R)Loebsack-D 54
ME-(Collins-R)Pingree-D 55
NC-(Tillis-R)Ross-D 56
TX-(Cornyn-R)Castro-D 57
2022-Democrats hold onto
CA-(Harris-D)46
CO-(Bennet-D)47
CT-(Blumenthal-D)48
HI-(Schatz-D)49
IL-(Duckworth-D)50
MD-(Van Hollen-D)51
NV-(Cortez Masto-D)52
NH-(Hassan-D)53
NY-(Schumer-D)54
OR-(Wyden-D)55
VT-(Leahy-D)56
WA-(Murray-D)57
Democrats pick up
MO-(Blunt-R)Galloway-D 58
NC-(Burr-R)Stein-D 59
PA-(Toomey-R)Shapiro-D 60

[ornotna]

1. Putting Bernie at the top of solid Dem list

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Yeah, good luck with that.


I guess I should have inserted the thingy.

[still_one]

2. While if the OP wants to present it that way, that is their choice, but technically you are

correct. Bernie identifies in Congress as an independent, he describes himself as a "Democratic Socialist", and though he aligns himself with the Democrats in Congress, he makes a point not to be identified as part of the Democratic party

[Hekate]

4. My question is, as always, what is the OP trying to do?

Aside from the obvious?

At least this time he's not fixated on the 2020 presidential picks, which I appreciate.

[nkpolitics1212]

7. Bernie campaigns in the Democratic primary in his US House and Senate races.

Sanders lost in the Democratic primary in 1990,1996, 2000, and 2004, but won the general election in a 3 way race as an Independent.
The DSCC endorses Bernie in his 2006,2012,and 2018 us senate races.

[nkpolitics1212]

3. Bernie is going to win re-election in 2018 with over 70 percent of the popular vote.

[still_one]

5. True, but what does that have to do with identifying him as Democrat, when both Bernie

and Angus King identify as Independents who caucus with the Democrats?

[ornotna]

8. If I lived in Vermont

I would be one of the ones voting for him. Wholeheartedly.

[L. Coyote]

6. Your point? There are 34 seats up in 2018, of which 25 are held by Democrats.

Dems need to gain 3 seats to take control of the Senate with current 52 Republicans and 48 Democrats (including two independents).

http://www.270towin.com/2018-senate-election/

Democrats' Path Back to Power: Running the Numbers, Part 3 (Senate 2020)

......... To have even a remote chance of winning a Senate majority in 2018, Democrats will need all their incumbents to get re-elected (including five in states that went for Trump by more than 15 points), pick up Nevada and Arizona, and then squeeze one more win out of the group of Mississippi, Nebraska, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming ..........

........ bottom line is this: Democrats have to win some light-red and even solid-red Senate seats if they want to be back in the majority in the Senate by 2020. ..........

[nkpolitics1212]

9. 2018-Democratic US Senators from Solid Trump States IN,MO,MT,ND,and WV will win re-election.

Democrats will pick up NV and AZ. +2D 50R 50D (48D,2I)
2020-Democrats hold onto NH and VA and pick up CO and NC. +2D 48R 52D (50D,2I)
Democrats could pick up ME in 2020 if Collins becomes Governor and MT in 2020 if Bullock decides to run.

[Chipper Chat]

11. Unfortunately, I don't think Joe Donnally can be reelected in Indiana.

Indiana is getting redder and redder. I thought Twitler's failure would change a few minds (including my own family).
But so far no. Trump is god here.
Very sad.

[Initech]

10. Forget 60, we need 100 before we can get anything meaningful passed.

Kick the republicans all out. They don't deserve it.