Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Has one Democrat’s implosion saved the Senate for the GOP in 2016?

Hot Air reports:
When Democrats lost control of the U.S. Senate in 2014, many on the left consoled themselves with the notion that this condition was merely temporary. The 2016 Senate landscape, they said, heavily favors Democratic candidates and Republicans are likely to be only temporary custodians of the upper chamber.
There's more:
Of all of the GOP’s vulnerable 2016 candidates, Toomey may be the most exposed. Pennsylvania is a blue state, particularly in presidential years. What’s more, the Pennsylvania Democratic Party has a strong farm team from which to draw Senate candidates. But state Attorney General Kathleen Kane, once Toomey’s most serious prospective challenger, has just suffered a spectacular implosion that will neutralize her as a threat to Pennsylvania Republicans and may tarnish the brand of the Keystone State’s Democratic Party.

“Court documents released Wednesday via a Supreme Court order show that the grand jury investigating alleged leaks recommended criminal charges against Attorney General Kathleen Kane,” PennLive.com reported on Wednesday.
Ouch.