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Decision Desk Projects GOP Will Win Control of Senate
Townhall ^ | 10/29/2022 | Spencer Brown

Posted on 10/29/2022 5:54:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Decision Desk HQ — Townhall's official election results partner — released its latest projection for the midterm elections just more than one week away and it reflects the momentum for Republican candidates that Townhall has reported in the final weeks of the 2022 cycle.

Specifically, for the first time in 2022, DDHQ projects that Republicans will win majority control of the U.S. Senate on November 8th. The margin is narrow (for now) — 51-49 — but that would be enough to send Chuck Schumer and his fellow Dems back into the minority in Congress' upper chamber.

🚨 Republicans are favored to win control of the U.S. Senate for the first time since we released our 2022 Elections Forecast. Our model currently predicts that Republicans have a 50.4% chance of control, and our mean seat projection is 51 (R) and 49 (D).https://t.co/UHhMBpQqvL— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) October 28, 2022

According to the Decision Desk model, U.S. Senate races in Nevada, Georgia, and Pennsylvania are the only remaining toss ups while North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, and Wisconsin are all "Lean" or "Likely" Republican races. Their model has run more than 14 million simulations to find possible election night outcomes, and it now has a 50.4 percent chance that Republicans come out of the midterms with control of the Senate. 

Underscoring the momentum of an apparently growing red wave, the DDHQ model has shifted toward Republican control by 3.9 points in the last day, 6.3 percent in the last week, and 14.2 percent in the last month. 

One of the biggest signs of GOP momentum is the Senate race in Pennsylvania, where Dr. Mehmet Oz has had the wind at his back in recent weeks, carrying him to a three-point polling lead over Democrat Lt. Governor John Fetterman. In that contest, DDHQ's model gives Oz a 53.1 percent chance of victory.

Depending on how much the current momentum continues to build for the GOP by Election Day, and what the final 10 or so days of the midterm cycle turn into, there's a chance that Republicans could also add to DDHQ's current projection of a 51-49 GOP majority. 

Their model ranks the Arizona and New Hampshire U.S. Senate races as just "Lean Dem," but recent polls in Arizona have showed Democrat incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly tied with GOP challenger Blake Masters, and Kari Lake's 11-point lead in the governor's race could lift Masters even further in a state-wide red wave of her own making.

And in New Hampshire, incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan is up just 3.4 points in her race against Republican challenger Don Bolduc.  

Meanwhile on the other side of the Congressional races, DDHQ's model currently puts the odds of Republicans taking control of the House of Representatives away from Speaker Pelosi at 76.7 percent, forecasting a 230-205 GOP majority.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: California; US: Florida; US: Georgia; US: Nevada; US: New Hampshire; US: North Carolina; US: Ohio; US: Pennsylvania; US: Wisconsin
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To: nwrep
Who are these clowns? Trying to project election results more than a week before election day?

Huh?
Joke post?

21 posted on 10/29/2022 10:16:10 PM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: xp38
A week before elections is “early chickens”?
Since when?
22 posted on 10/29/2022 10:17:28 PM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: CatOwner

Nope.
Try again.


23 posted on 10/29/2022 10:18:23 PM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

50 Republicans + 1 RINO (Romney) and 49 Democrats


24 posted on 10/30/2022 12:24:16 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: SeekAndFind

The other day I was rereading some sections of the Bible and noticed wording I had never realized was there.

Jesus mentioned that the “spirit of evil” entered Judas. That’s what I’m observing in todays environment.

Good people are suddenly changing. I see the change in their eyes. It’s as though an evil spirit moved into them and their behavior changes!


25 posted on 10/30/2022 12:30:11 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: lightman

That’s unusual in PA. If that happens then PA will go completely red with the exception of the AG position.


26 posted on 10/30/2022 4:29:15 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: lightman

I hope you are right.


27 posted on 10/30/2022 4:33:06 AM PDT by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: SeekAndFind

RINO piles of excrement that follow the wisdom of Mitch McConnell.


28 posted on 10/30/2022 5:39:52 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: lightman
My personal prediction: Oz wins by AT LEAST 55 to 45.

Hitting the communion wine again 😀I hope you’re right.

29 posted on 10/30/2022 5:45:17 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: Olog-hai

Eisenhower left office with one of the most brilliant speeches ever by any American:

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp

It is most famous for the mention of the military industrial complex, but it has one section that was even more stunningly prophetic:

“Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.

In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields.

In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”


30 posted on 10/30/2022 5:51:16 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: tired&retired
50 Republicans + 1 RINO (Romney)

Yeppers, and Collins and McConnell, and Linda, and a majority of the Caucus. Our Job isn’t over until at least 2026. We will need at least two more election cycles to make Senate RINOs an endangered species. I doubt they will every be extinct.

31 posted on 10/30/2022 5:51:49 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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