# Will Democrats sweep the House and Senate as well?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-democrats-sweep-the-house-and-senate-as-well/752885>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [April 23, 2016, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-democrats-sweep-the-house-and-senate-as-well/752885 "2016-04-23T12:07:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-democrats-sweep-the-house-and-senate-as-well/752885/21 "2016-04-23T20:51:25Z")

</div>

> [@Martin\_Hyde](#):
>
> I get emails from Hillary’s campaign all the time scaremongering about how Bernie has won another primary or raised another $20m. Think why her campaign is doing that even though she knows she’s got the nomination locked up.

I’m sure she “knew” that in 2008, too, so what’s the big deal?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-democrats-sweep-the-house-and-senate-as-well/752885/22 "2016-04-23T21:06:08Z")

</div>

Senate? Probably. House? No.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-democrats-sweep-the-house-and-senate-as-well/752885/23 "2016-04-24T00:53:40Z")

</div>

> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
>
> I’m sure she “knew” that in 2008, too, so what’s the big deal?

Yeah, because the numbers then are the same as now.

Or maybe she never held a lead over Obama, and with each election it was confirmed she’d never close the (narrower) deficit? Hillary herself knew she couldn’t win in pledged delegates by this stage–her game plan was to have the supers move to back her (which is also a plan Sanders has, albeit he’s luke warm on really advocating for it, most likely because he knows after seeing Hillary’s quixotic attempt in 2008 that it just ain’t gonna happen.)

This isn’t that complicated.

“Everything is good no worries.” Doesn’t raise money. “The sky is falling” does. There is simply no evidence you win elections by raising more money, the candidate with more money frequently loses. What there is evidence is of is campaigns are expensive, and you need a base level of money to be competitive, but you don’t need to outspend your opponent 2:1 to win.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-democrats-sweep-the-house-and-senate-as-well/752885/24 "2016-04-24T02:02:38Z")

</div>

> [@Martin\_Hyde](#):
>
> This isn’t that complicated.

You’re right - it’s not. Having already experienced a campaign that looked like a lock but slipped away, I’m entirely unsurprised that Hillary Clinton and her handlers won’t rest easy (well, easy-ish) until the nomination is well secured.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-democrats-sweep-the-house-and-senate-as-well/752885.md?page=1)