Alright, so I think that would put our best case scenario, that's every candidate on that list winning (which is a very long shot of course, but still) at 63 R seats in the Senate.

I'm sure that won't happen unless some massive story happens right before the midterms.

Add Corey Stewart for Virginia and whoever is running in Maine and you have a list.

This list is as of people who are realistically running right now, btw, no dream candidates like Lindell unless he announces a run.

I'll add him, I've got a txt file

oh, that's right,

about gubernatorial races

we have an oppurtunity to expand into Connecticut,

so we should look into candidates for there as well

Minnesota, too.

we're talking strictly governors right now, right?

Pennsylvania would be a good pickup. Lots of competitive races there.

Colorado will probably be close.

yeah, I think we've kinda been putting off the gubernatorial issue because of the US congress

don't underestimate gubernatorial races,

they usually determine how districts are gerrymandered

we definitely need to have at least a list

Seems like we have New Hampshire, Maryland, and Massachusetts in the bag.

nothing's in the bag

ever

we've always got fight tooth and nail on everything if we want to keep what we have

I don't think you understand the potential of Connecticut,

I saw the map you posted

If everything that can flip flips, we can get 40 governer's mansions.

just 1 one more R state senator,

and 7 more R state reps,

and a R governor can redraw the map so an R can win a seat in the US House of Reps

that's of importance, definitely

it'd be great to have a US rep from that state

Connecticut is prime property for expansion.

It's majority white and has quite a lot of working class people.

I think that areas like Connecticut, Delaware, NH, Maine could in a decade or 2 become red states

NH and Maine are swing states already.

it's an ongoing trend, they're the canaries in the coal mine

I think that we'll have the GOP eventually become a big tent party like the dems used to be before the 2000s

The Republicans have taken Dixie from the dems, are taking the rust belt from the dems, and could take the northeast from them eventually.

http://www.270towin.com/maps/Onv6B

These are the battle lines for politics in the future, the sun belt may go to the dems eventually.

It depends on our immigration policy.

yeah, we want to have hegemony over there for as long as possible

and I think it's possible to keep it on our side permanently if we make sure to pass the right stuff

If we stopped immigration from Mexico, the south will be red for quite a few decades.

Dixie will be red for the rest of our lives

The sun belt are where the demographic battle lines are

I thought the Sun Belt was this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Sun_belt.svg/1200px-Sun_belt.svg.png

But yeah, I could see Arizona and Texas becoming much more blue if we don't build a wall.

Eh, to me it ends at the eastern border of Texas

then the bible belt starts and so on

http://www.270towin.com/2018-governor-election/xMV7

Best case scenario for Republicans in the Governer's elections.

Getting back to senatorial runs, apparently the Governor of Maine has flirted with a run multiple times

Paul LePage? He seems to be quite popular, and would definitely make it competitive.

Yeah, definitely, especially since King has the unique issue of the vote split since he's an (I)

Baker? You mean King, right?

lmao forgot his name

You corrected that as soon as I posted.

yeah, but in any case, that's an interesting possibility

LePage has gone back and forth on this for years now, if he decides to run, I think it'd be an easy win

I think Virginia and Maine are unappreciated battlegrounds.

Maybe not VA in my opinion, but definitely Maine

Trump was decently close to winning the state at large in 2016

Corey Stewart can drive up turnout in the rural areas and appeal to Northerners, and if Tim Kaine's creepy behavior towards children is in adds, he could pull off a win.

I certainly hope you're right

Corey's a good guy

He managed to win election in a 60-40 Dem-Rep area, and Kaine is poisoned by his Clinton run, so an upset is definitely possible.

Hey, I hope so.

New Jersey could be possible if the R's have a strong candidate. Not hoping on it, but the incumbent is scandal-ridden.

Gotta add Corey.

Alright, I'll look up the candidates and update the list

The New Jersey declared candidate list is garbage

Still, over half of people want Bob to resign, so it might be a potential upset.

Thomas Kean Jr. is a good potential one though, and apparently he's been calling out illegals even in the fucking Bush era

Let's hope he runs to make this more competitive.

Yeah, I'll put him on the list since he's the most viable

NJ somehow manages to get the worst candidates at everything

Kean Jr. is doing well in polling also

The only other potential flip is Maryland, and that's only if Chelsea Manning wins the primary.

NJ Republican party after Christie is a mess

Maybe New Mexico if the current governer runs for Senate.

she's unpopular

ouch, -20 approval

she'll lose her seat, she's pretty done in politics after she loses in 2018

Dang.

Well, this seems to be the absolute best case scenario if the stars align:

http://www.270towin.com/2018-senate-election/8WDWzl

lol

if only, if only.

lmao we'd be able to get the NFA repealed with those numbers

i'm not even sure Nevada can stay red

this is best case

Eh, it's a toss up.

shoot for the stars, I say.

Hell, I'll add Shiva in Mass, why the hell not

thinking that as well

also, _two_ Minnesota seats?

best case

absolute best case

If Mike Lindell runs for Klobuchar's seat, it's possible.

it'll be interesting if Kevin de Leon primaries Feinstein and wins

If Dwayne Johnson suddenly decides to get into politics, he could flip California. That has a 0.00000000001 percent chance of happening, though.