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In a year when pocketbook concerns will decide whether Democrats forfeit the House and Senate to Republicans, many wallets are as threadbare as voters’ patience.
“Voters who hired Democrats in 2008 desperately hoped that a change in government would bring about a change in the trajectory of the economy,” said David Wasserman, an analyst who handicaps House races for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. “They haven’t seen that happen.
“To the extent things have gotten worse, or at least been stagnant,” he added, “[Titus] stands to lose her job.”
Titus’ district is a key theater in the midterm skirmishing. The GOP considers the Y-shaped mass — closely split between registered Republicans and Democrats — a place where it can pick up one of the 39 seats it needs to control the House.
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