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FiveThirtyEight Senate Forecast: Toss-Up or Tilt GOP?
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fivethirtyeight-senate-forecast-toss-up-or-tilt-gop/ ^ | June 8, 2014 | Nate Silver

Posted on 06/09/2014 6:34:57 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2

The new forecast is for a Republican gain of 5.7 seats. So it’s shifted ever so slightly — by one-tenth of a seat — toward being a toss-up. Still, if asked to place a bet at even odds, we’d take a Republican Senate.

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To: Chuckster

Begich got in basically on fluke, as the late Sen. Ted Stevens was convicted on charges which were proved to be false.

Not an expert on Alaska politics but I do know that is usually sends Republicans to Congress, has not voted for a Dem presidential candidate since 1964, is very pro drill-baby-drill and is also the home of Sarah Palin.

Given that the party in power tends to lose seats in a midterm election, especially in a state where BHO’s policies and poll ratings are not and have never been favorable, you would think this particular US Senate would be ripe to fall into GOP hands this year.


41 posted on 06/09/2014 10:24:46 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

Cotton hasn’t done himself any favors running for the Senate after just one term in the House.


42 posted on 06/09/2014 1:44:41 PM PDT by AceMineral (Some people are slaves of their own stupidity.)
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