Senate control might not be decided on Nov 6
Looking at the regular elections on the 6th, if the "Leans" all go the way they are leaning, and we run the table on the five "Toss-Ups", then that leaves us with 49 Democrats and 49 Republicans, because there are two special elections on the 6th also. One is in Minnesota, which looks pretty solidly blue. That's 50-D 49-R. The final special election is in Mississippi, where Democrat and former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy will be in a jungle primary with the appointed incumbent and party turncoat Cindy Hyde-Smith and racist shitbag Chris McDaniel. (This is for Thad Cochran's old seat; McDaniel primaried him back in 2014 and it got so dirty McDaniel sent a photographer to stalk Cochran's ailing wife in her nursing home.)
This race will be interesting because Cochran always had strong support in the African American community in MS (and I'll even say, for a Republican, Cochran was a pretty decent guy). Hyde-Smith hasn't made any inroads there, and McDaniel is running on the platform that Trump isn't openly racist enough. One of those two will probably face Mike Espy, and extremely popular African American elder statesman, in the runoff on November 27. In the hypothetical I mentioned above, that runoff would decide control of the Senate, either going 51-49 D or 50-50 defaulting to R with Pence breaking the tie.
Just saying this may be an even longer slog than we think.
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