I'm assuming this thread goes better in the "presidential" sub-forum than the general USA Politics section but mods can move it if they want this sub-section to be oh so exclusive.
This came up in another thread. The balance of power is quite likely to shift in the Senate. There are 34 seats being contested, but a huge majority of those are current GOP seats,.... 24, if I'm not mistaken. Plus, of the 10 Dem seats, eight would seem to be very solid. Of the 24 GOP seats, there look to be 7/8 of them hotly contested.
This is mostly based on the state demographics and early chatter about nominees as most of them haven't been determined yet. For the Dems, the net pick-up required is 4 seats for a tie (and a need to find a single renegade GOP Senator), 5 for a majority. With a lot of blue and purple states in the running, it would seem to be a very do-able task, even assuming they lose the one or two tenuous blue seats (Reid's seat in NV would seem the most likely).
This came up in another thread. The balance of power is quite likely to shift in the Senate. There are 34 seats being contested, but a huge majority of those are current GOP seats,.... 24, if I'm not mistaken. Plus, of the 10 Dem seats, eight would seem to be very solid. Of the 24 GOP seats, there look to be 7/8 of them hotly contested.
This is mostly based on the state demographics and early chatter about nominees as most of them haven't been determined yet. For the Dems, the net pick-up required is 4 seats for a tie (and a need to find a single renegade GOP Senator), 5 for a majority. With a lot of blue and purple states in the running, it would seem to be a very do-able task, even assuming they lose the one or two tenuous blue seats (Reid's seat in NV would seem the most likely).
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