Open House Seats

Psst! Those Open Seat House Races Don’t Look Bad for the Republicans After All! By Jim geraght

http://www.nationalreview.com/morning-jolt/455758/those-open-seat-house-races-dont-look-bad-republicans-after-all?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=180125_Jolt&utm_term=Jolt

Excerpt: But when you go through those open seat House districts one by one, something becomes very clear: About two-thirds of them are very heavily GOP districts. I can give you a statistic like “25 out of the 34 districts are ones where Trump won by 10 points or more,” but it’s better to go through all of my one-paragraph summaries and get a sense of just how red some of these places are: The eastern half of Idaho. Muncie, Indiana. The suburbs of Jackson, Mississippi. Republicans have held New Mexico’s Second District every cycle except one since 1980. Republicans have held Ohio’s 16th district every cycle except one since 1973. The last time a Democrat represented Pennsylvania’s ninth district, Franklin Roosevelt was president. The last time a Democrat represented Tennessee’s second district was 1855.