'Major wipeout' of 2006 proportions could force a new GOP reckoning

Republicans could be looking at a major wipeout in the midterm elections. Their tiny House majority was always going to be difficult to maintain, but the Senate should not be in play at all. Yet it surely is, with Democrats leading in nearly all the toss-up races, including in the reddest states, and competitive in at least a dozen of the contests that will determine which party controls the upper chamber.The Iran war is a big reason this has come to pass. It has demoralized the least indefatigably partisan part of President Donald Trump’s coalition by abandoning his promise to avoid new forev