Tennessee is a shitty hell hole of poverty, misery, meth, dying rural communities and Nashville. I say now that there is no. way. in. hell. the DNC can get its shit together and fight for this seat.
There are now rumors in the state that McConnell may not run again, but he loves being in power too much to quit.
Looking at the map, and the disorganization of the DNC outside the coasts, I have money on the R's picking up three Senate seats in 2018. God damn it I hope I am wrong.
You're high.
The only seat they have to worry about - "outside the coasts" - is New Mexico. New Mexico votes Libertarian. New Mexico votes Green. New Mexico has run Republican senators in the past - fuck you Pete Domenici - but prognosticating doom from here is beyond pessimistic, it's suffering porn.