re: #100 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Devil’s advocacy here:

The GOP will counter with “Crooked Hillary” and point out that Russia is buzzing our reconnaissance flights and threatening to shoot down our jets over Syria, both of which are factually irrelevant but rhetorically effective, and the mass media show no sign of doing their job at all, which means that the GOP will control the narrative.

That’s where messaging and other such things come in of which I claim little knowledge on how to present.

That’s why they pay the folk at the top of the party the big bucks.

Our jets being threatened over Syria is on the Republicans. Dems had no part of that.

There’s a lot of time between now and the next general election. I assume people far-better educated than me are working on this now.

As I noted, the spending the GOP put in on those four House races is unsustainable. While the GOP spends money on local races, if they want to try to save House and Senate seats with that kind of spending they will have to abandon state and local parties.