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    For Democrats, all that enthusiasm comes with risks

    Mar 20, 2018 4 minutes
    A volunteer makes phone calls urging residents to vote during the June 5 primary at the headquarters of Flip the 49th: Neighbors in Action on March 14 in Carlsbad, Calif. Neighbors in Action is a super PAC dedicated to supporting efforts to get out the Democratic vote in California's 49th district, one of seven key seats Democrats are targeting in their bid to retake the majority in the House of Representatives in November's midterm elections.

    When Conor Lamb won the special House election in Pennsylvania’s 18th district last week, William Bondshu cheered.

    Like many Democrats across the country, Mr. Bondshu saw the win as a sign that voters in the party could transform their grievances against the Trump administration into political change – and retake the majority in the House of Representatives in November’s midterm elections.

    “It was so invigorating,” says Bondshu, a sales manager and community volunteer in Carlsbad, Calif. “That you can get a Democrat into a seat despite the demographics of that seat is a mountain moved.” (Pennsylvania’s 18th voted overwhelmingly for President Trump in 2016.)

    Mr. Trump’s effect on energizing liberals has been widely documented. People who’d never

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