GOP 'going nuts' as deep red states face 'cataclysmic down-ballot slaughter': analyst

With just over a week until Election Day, Republicans are playing defense in states they usually don’t have to think about. One political scientist has a theory about why. “My theory on why the GOP is going nuts over the midterms in deep red states: Nobody normally polls in the solidly red states,” Tim Hogan, a lawyer and liberal commentator, wrote in a…