Since leaving the State Department, Hillary Clinton’s favorability numbers have taken a sharp nose dive, indicating that her standing with the American public is much different than her campaign would like you to believe.As her candidacy has been beset by scandals over her email server and questionable donations to the Clinton Foundation, pro-Clinton forces have argued that the controversies aren’t breaking through or impacting voters’ perception of her, often citing a CBS News/New York Times poll as evidence. But unfortunately for Secretary Clinton and her team, they are glossing over a lot of serious problems in her numbers.

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Last week, Politico reported that “Democrats are nervous” about their chances to win a Senate seat in Pennsylvania. Joe Sestak’s anemic fundraising and embarrassing walking tour have gone so poorly, that Dems are looking for someone, anyone, to run against him.

Poor Sestak. 

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Democrats have to win big in 2016 to disassemble the GOP’s historic House majority, but they’re off to a bad start. In must-win districts, Democrats are seeing their hopes severely threatened by contentious primaries throughout the country:

FL-18: Democrats’ preferred choice to run in the open swing seat has gone disastrously wrong. Three candidates are now vying for the coveted seat.

IA-01: Following Bruce Braley’s disastrous 2014 Senate bid, Democrats lost his vacant, Democratic-leaning seat. Now, in their battle to reclaim a seat they had held for nearly a decade, they are coping with a high-stakes primary with three Democratic contenders in an expensive top 2016 state.

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In a brutal editorial, the Ohio Valley’s Intelligencer lays into Ted Strickland for his utter failure as a governor, saying, “Strickland and his party have been dismal failures on just about everything that is important to East Ohioans.”

But Strickland isn’t worried about people from this part of the state. Instead, he’s trying to outmaneuver his younger, more progressive opponent, P.G. Sittenfeld, by staking positions further and further to left.

Democrats had hoped Las Vegas activist Susie Lee would mount a challenge to their perennial target Joe Heck in Nevada’s 3rd congressional district, but she has chosen to join the Democratic primary in Nevada’s 4th district instead. 

Lee’s decision to go district shopping and run in the 4th district instead of the 3rd leaves a top swing seat without a Democratic challenger and causes a crowded Democratic primary for yet another high priority seat for Nancy Pelosi.