Senate Balance of Power: GOP 49 Dems 45 Toss-Up 6
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Rasmussen Reports - The Tennessee Senate race is getting closer and Rasmussen Reports now classifies the Corker-Ford race as a &quot;Toss-Up.&quot; Previously, it had been rated &quot;Leans Republican.&quot; This reduces the number of states in the Republican or Leans Republican categories to 49. Forty-five (45) Senate seats are favored to remain in&nbsp;Democratic hands while 6 are now in the Toss-Up category. (see State-by-State Summary).
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If Tuesday&#39;s election returns were a bitter pill for Democrats nationally, they were pure poison for Democrats in the South. Five formerly Democratic US Senate seats were up for grabs.
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Republican Party strategists, even under expected circumstances, knew they faced a difficult imbalance in the 2008 lineup of Senate races. The GOP have 21 seats to defend to just 12 for the Democrats.
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Believe it or not, Democrats in the Utah Senate fared better Tuesday than their counterparts in the US Senate. Democrats in the state added a seat, while the national party lost four.
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Republicans swept the five Democratic Southern Senate seats up for election, expanding their majority by at least three seats in the US Senate, and appeared to have scored a major upset by
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With far more Republicans than Democrats facing reelection in 2008, Democrats hope to widen their independent-bolstered 51-to-49 majority, perhaps by three or four seats. But it takes serious political talent to knock off a Senate incumbent, and it's mostly red-leaning states that are in play....
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With all the hoopla over Bush and Kerry, some of you may not have been paying close attention to the other races going on in this loaded US political season. I've read a good dozen or so Senate outlooks, and my blurry eyes and spinning brain kept getting lost in all the numbers and losing track of who, ultimately, was likely to control the Senate on November third. So I made my very own Senate outlook to figure it out (or add further confusion, depending on what you think of my predictions). The bad news is, we probably won't know who controls the Senate on November third. The good news, if you're a Democrat (or a person who loves one), is that my best guess at this point is that when the dust settles, Democrats will probably be in control by the very slimmest possible margin. Shock! But everyone knows the Dems have no chance of taking either house of Congress. I think everyone hasn't been paying attention. Read on for my rundown.
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Democratic Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin holds an 11-point lead over Republican Lt. Gov. Michael Steele in the U.S. Senate race, according to poll results published Monday.
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Rasmussen Reports - California&#39;s U.S. Senate race has tightened slightly, but not enough to furrow the brow of the Democratic incumbent. Easily absorbing a five-point decline in her lead since July, Senator Dianne Feinstein now leads former Republican state Senator Richard Mountjoy 56% to 34%.
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THE Coalition will hold the balance of power in the Senate for a full six years, rather than three, after confirming its majority in the Senate yesterday.
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With more than half the Florida vote counted, the Arizona Senator is projected to win the winner-take-all GOP primary
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Republicans are likely to add to their one-vote US Senate majority tomorrow. Whatever the outcome, partisanship may be the winner.
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WASHINGTON -- The Senate race in America&#39;s political battle was proving as pitched as the main event yesterday as Republicans renewed their claim on the Senate floor and reached out to grab hold of Democratic seats across the south.
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WASHINGTON - Republicans expanded their Senate majority in Tuesday&#39;s US elections, picking up as many as four more seats and knocking off Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle in the process.
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Republicans took over from Democrats the seat in the key battleground state of South Carolinain the Senate races Tuesday, making it even harder the uphill fight by Democrats for the Senate control.
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WASHINGTON - Republicans and Democrats made little headway in their efforts to build up a meaningful majority in Tuesday&#39;s battles over 34 Senate seats.
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Democrats must gain six seats in the  November 7 election to recapture U.S. Senate control, and they  lead in three of the seven most vulnerable Republican-held  states, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Thursday.