“At Republicans headquarters in Washington, top strategists predicted days in advance that the GOP would win the Senate and gain House seats despite polls suggesting many races could go either way,” the Washington Examiner reports.
“The party points to the $100 million it has spent overhauling the way it campaigns, finally giving it a data and analytics-driven operation that can compete with the Democratic machine built by President Obama.”
“Just as importantly, McNulty and his staff decided to do what the Democrats did and focus their energies almost entirely on getting out the vote among groups highly likely to be Republican but don’t usually vote in midterm elections. Final statistics are still not in, but McNulty predicted that the GOP would maintain its historic midterm turnout advantage because the party didn’t waste resources reaching out to people who were already reliable Republican voters.”
