THE PROSPECT OF 60.... Periodically over the last few months, the notion that Democrats could go +9 for the cycle and claim a 60-seat majority in the Senate has popped up. The exuberance seems to die down soon after, when the political world realizes how exceedingly difficult this would be, even under the most favorable of circumstances. The subject reemerged this morning, when Sen. Chuck Schumer, (D-N.Y.), chairman of the DSCC, told reporters he still thinks the filibuster-proof threshold may be within reach. ...Schumer and the Democrats have added other previous-cycle crimson states to their target list: Georgia, North Carolina, Mississippi and Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's seat in Kentucky. He went so far as to call Georgia and Kentucky "even-steven races." The DSCC put up their first ad in Kentucky today....
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