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Among the abundant ironies of this election cycle, there is this: We are now in the eighth year of the most liberal administration since Lyndon Johnson's. The primary elections reveal a national mood of anxiety, apprehension and anger, in turn reflecting stagnation at home and failure abroad.
Pennsylvania's primary polls looked grim in mid-March for Katie McGinty, the candidate recruited by Democratic heavy hitters in Washington in their multimillion-dollar quest to recapture the U.S. Senate majority.
Hundreds of millions of dollars that Republican groups had been poised to spend in the 2016 presidential election are moving into Senate and House races as many big donors look to distance themselves from the party's presumptive nominee, Donald Trump. These groups and their Democratic counterparts have already spent more than $25 million on advertising in Senate general-election races alone, according to Kantar Media/CMAG, outpacing both the 2014 and 2012 campaigns in outside spending.
Among the abundant ironies of this election cycle, there is this: We are now in the eighth year of the most liberal administration since Lyndon Johnson's. The primary elections reveal a national mood of anxiety, apprehension and anger, in turn reflecting stagnation at home and failure abroad.