(CNN) On Sunday, The New York Times published a piece headlined " Senate Republicans Are Newly Hopeful About the Midterms. If you can take a break from that caffeination campaign, I wanted to talk about the NYT piece from Sunday that argues that Senate Republicans are in a better place than they have been in a while in their hopes of holding the Senate this fall. The 2018 election began with Republicans talking (quietly) about the possibility of winning a filibuster-proof 60 seats after 2018. In short: I think Alabama made Democrats overly exuberant and Republicans far too pessimistic. But that link really between Senate and presidential results didn't exist in 2006 when the Democrats took back the Senate.

Source: CNN June 04, 2018 19:47 UTC