Tweet of the Day, The Provincialism Of The Joni Ernst-Hating Northeasterner On Display edition.

But he’s not bitter!

The Republicans got nothing but rewards for obstructionism. No Contract with America was needed. The 2014 electorate was willing to hire the Republicans like day laborers: Pull up, hop in. No, I don’t need your C.V. You castrate pigs? Great, you got a job.

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Mark Udall calls Cory Gardner ‘Senator’ at yesterday’s Colorado debate.

Man. Mark Udall’s internal polling must be awful.

If this election was anything except a fully mail-in ballot election, that would be DOOM right there. Heck, if it was Colorado’s second mail-in ballot election it’d be DOOM.  But between this, yesterday’s absolute disaster of an attempted hit piece against Gardner, and of course the polling… Cory Gardner is nicely in the glide path for winning in two and a half weeks.  There are some things that the margin of fraud* can do nothing for.

But no sense being complacent. Cory Gardner for Senate.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

*I do believe in it; I merely think that the percentages involved are a lot narrower than do many of my colleagues.  I suspect that it is mostly used to make sure that the ‘right’ people win Democratic primaries.  Not as many people looking at those races and in many cases winning the primary = winning the election.

The Democratic party’s biggest structural problem, in one ‘Senator vs. Governor’ chart.

It boils down to this: the American people are rapidly coming to the conclusion that you probably should be a governor of something before you become President.

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SEN-NV: Jon Porter reconsidering not going for GOP nomination?

(via @BrianFaughnan) I don’t actually have an opinion on whether Porter should, or whether he can jump back in at this point: but the fact that he’s seriously considering trying for the Republican nomination again says volumes about how weak Senator Reid is right now.  You’d think that a former boxer and (current) Senate Majority Leader wouldn’t have had such a glass jaw…

Crossposted to RedState.