West Virginia's Senator Manchin Is Sometimes a Problem

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37. True, but I don't think any other Dem could have done any better

Imagine if Capito were like McConnell or Collins. We would have thrown money away to cut her 70 -27 win down to a 65 - 35, or something like that. McGrath never really had a chance in Kentucky. Harrison's race was much closer in SC, and without Trump on the ballot who knows what might have happened.

Dems in Montana were practically begging for some of that money, so who knows what could have happened there.

It's a double-edged sword, really. Sometimes the races that fly under the radar are the ones that we have a chance to win. My two favorite examples: when Jon Ossoff was raking in big bucks in his special House race and everyone was focused on that one, he ended up losing by 3.56 points. That same year, in a special election in South Carolina, Archie Parnell, who did not garner significant coverage or money, lost his race by 3.2 points. And in 2016, when Democrats were hoping to win back the Senate, no one thought that Jason Kander in Missouri had much of a chance against Roy Blunt, but Kander ended up losing that Senate seat by only 2.8%.