Schumer predicts a Democratic Senate in 2017

[RandySF]

PHILADELPHIA — Chuck Schumer is feeling good enough about the battle for Senate control to essentially predict he’ll be majority leader next year. Not only that, the veteran New York Democrat believes his party is on the cusp of something much bigger: An era of electoral dominance.

“We’re going to have a Democratic generation. [President Barack Obama] helped create it. But it’s just where America’s moving demographically, ideologically and in every way,” Schumer told POLITICO in a lengthy interview this week at the Democratic National Convention. “We’ll have a mandate to get something done.”

Schumer’s rosy outlook may be at odds with the many headaches confronting him if Democrats manage to pick up the four seats they need to flip the Senate.

The day after the election, Senate Democrats will be on defense. The party will face an awful map in the 2018 midterm and long odds to hang on to the Senate if they manage to win it this year, compounded by the potential for an electoral backlash if Hillary Clinton becomes president.



http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/chuck-schumer-interview-226385#ixzz4FoCSubUO
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[vi5]

1. It's only a Democratic senate if we get....what's it up to now? 95 seats?

I can't keep track of what it is we need to actually get something done.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. That would be nearly all of the seats!

[vi5]

7. Yes, but still......

The goalposts keep getting moved for why we can't get anything done no matter how many seats we hold in how many governmental houses or institutions. It's only a matter of time before we hit that as the next one.

[Armstead]

3. Hopefully not a Wall St. owned Democratic Senate

[workinclasszero]

4. "We’re going to have a Democratic generation."

From your lips to God's ears friend!

It will take a generation of democratic rule to get this country back on track for all Americans!

[AwakeAtLast]

5. +1000!

Unfortunately.

[workinclasszero]

6. I just hope and pray that the american public is finally...

Sick and tired of the hate and lies of the republican party!

8 years of hell under Bush and the next 8 years of republican obstruction against President Obama and refusal to do anything to benefit the average american may have finally caught up with the bastards!

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. McConnell's gonna come begging to hold hearings on Garland before the break

They are in a total Catch-22. If they confirm, their right win base will bolt just before the election. If they don't, they may see a 40 year old radical feminist judge from Hillary in January.

I say Obama should start suggesting he'll pull the nomination if polls are looking really good in early September. Really ratchet up the pressure on these motherfuckers.