GOP Sees New Hope for 2016

“GOP victories on Tuesday in a handful of swing states once carried by President Barack Obama are buoying the party’s hopes for taking back the White House in 2016,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Republicans Cory Gardner in Colorado, Thom Tillis in North Carolina and Joni Ernst in Iowa clinched Senate seats. Republican governors also won second terms in Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan. Mr. Obama won all of these swing states at least once, in part because of a superior voter-turnout operation that took advantage of demographic trends and altered the shape of the electorate.”

Said GOP pollster Neil Newhouse: “The results are very encouraging for 2016. We’ve leveled the playing field in terms of the ground game in these purple states.”