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WI_DEM

(33,497 posts) Thu May 22, 2014, 11:56 AM May 2014

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Forecast gives Dems 56% chance of retaining control of U.S. Senate

http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2014/senate-model/index.html

Who Will Win The Senate?

According to our statistical election-forecasting machine, the Democrats have a slight edge, with about a 56% chance of retaining a majority.

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Forecast gives Dems 56% chance of retaining control of U.S. Senate (Original Post) WI_DEM May 2014 OP

Welcome back WI_DEM! hrmjustin May 2014 #1

I hope at the very worst... yallerdawg May 2014 #2

If it were the GOP with this number the media would be over the gloom and doom meme for Democrats, Fred Sanders May 2014 #3

Wee bit of a swing jeff47 May 2014 #4

Nifty. k&r n/t Laelth May 2014 #5

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

1. Welcome back WI_DEM!

Reply to WI_DEM (Original post)

Thu May 22, 2014, 11:59 AM

May 2014

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

2. I hope at the very worst...

Reply to WI_DEM (Original post)

Thu May 22, 2014, 12:03 PM

May 2014

this poll holds!

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

3. If it were the GOP with this number the media would be over the gloom and doom meme for Democrats,

Reply to WI_DEM (Original post)

Thu May 22, 2014, 12:34 PM

May 2014

but not so much the other way around, you know it.

jeff47

(26,549 posts)

4. Wee bit of a swing

Reply to WI_DEM (Original post)

Thu May 22, 2014, 01:28 PM

May 2014

Same poll gave the Republicans a >70% chance a month ago.

Laelth

(32,017 posts)

5. Nifty. k&r n/t

Reply to WI_DEM (Original post)

Thu May 22, 2014, 04:06 PM

May 2014

-Laelth

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