.MaddowBlog: Arizona's Sen. McSally makes an unfortunate case for a GOP-led Senate
At the heart of McSally's message is an attempt to nationalize her race, trying to convince voters in her traditionally"red" state to see the contest from a vastly larger perspective. To hear the senator tell it, this isn't just a contest about two candidates, or even a campaign about Arizona's specific needs. Rather, voters should elect her in order to maintain a Republican majority in the Senate.
And why should that be a principal public priority? Because as McSally sees it, a Democratic majority would lead more Americans to have representation in Congress -- an outcome the Arizonan apparently believes would be a disaster for her political party. The list of problems with such a posture is not short. For example, senators generally don't base their appeal on denying Americans a voice on Capitol Hill.
What's more, her assumptions are at odds with available evidence: Puerto Ricans have elected a Republican governor, and the island's current delegate to Congress is Jenniffer Gonzalez -- a Republican. For that matter, even if we assumed Democrats would grant statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico, and even if we assumed they collectively sent four Democratic senators to the Hill, that still wouldn't necessarily mean that Republicans would"never" be able to achieve a majority. The GOP has had five-seat majoritiesBut let's also not miss the forest for the trees.
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