Cook Report Moves 20 House Seats In Dems’ Favor After O’Care Repeal Vote

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. speaks at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference in National Harbor, Md., Thursday, March 6, 2014. Ryan said GOP leaders and conservative ... House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. speaks at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference in National Harbor, Md., Thursday, March 6, 2014. Ryan said GOP leaders and conservative activists should "give each other the benefit of the doubt" in the debate over the party's future. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) MORE LESS
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Cook Political Report on Friday morning changed its ratings for 20 House seats, predicting that Democrats’ odds of winning those districts has increased now that House Republicans passed a bill to repeal Obamacare.

“Although it’s the first of potentially many explosive votes, House Republicans’ willingness to spend political capital on a proposal that garnered the support of just 17 percent of the public in a March Quinnipiac poll is consistent with past scenarios that have generated a midterm wave,” Cook Political Report’s David Wasserman wrote in a post explaining the ratings changes. “Not only did dozens of Republicans in marginal districts just hitch their names to an unpopular piece of legislation, Democrats just received another valuable candidate recruitment tool.”

He wrote that for some Republicans, backing the American Health Care Act is an “unequivocal political risk.”

Cook Political Report moved three districts from leaning Republican to toss-ups, 11 districts from likely Republican to leaning Republican and six districts from solid Republican to leaning Republican.

 

 

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  1. Trump: Not worried. Gerrymandering, voter suppression, not allowing non-whites to vote etc will keep me in power forever. Republicans are the Permanent majority. I will never pay any tax. Ever!

  2. So, is anyone tasked, or taking on the task, of making sure there isn’t one single state legislative seat that gets won by a Republican because no one, or no one who wasn’t clinically insane, was running against them?

  3. Waaaaaay too early to put much stock in any midterm ‘predictions.’

    You’ve been given a gift, Dems. Don’t blow it.

  4. I know it’s way too early but I hope 14 of the 20 are the blots from California…

  5. Helloooo… DNC? Anyone home? Hellooooo…

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