I hope nobody is feeling bad about the TN-7 result

[Tom Rinaldo]

42. Republicans have an instinctive belief that moderate Democrats pose the biggest threat to them

They can't help themselves, because they assume that the vast majority of Americans (outside of urban NY, MA, and CA) reject any "leftist" candidates as too extreme. They buy their own rhetoric. So they look at the Democratic candidate in that Iowa race belonging to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party as proof that Democrats could have done better with a more "mainstream" moderate candidate running instead.

That's their mindset, not mine. However given that mindset, i bet a whole lot of current Republican congressional reps are damn fearful a more "typical" Democratic candidate would run even stronger against them in the midterms.