Cook Political Report: Dems poised to pick up 5-7 Senate Seats

[book_worm]

Cook Political Report: “History shows that races in the Toss Up column never split down the middle; one party tends to win the lion’s share of them. Since 1998, no party has won less than 67 percent of the seats in Toss Up. While the 2016 election has broken every political science rule and trend, we’d be surprised if this becomes one of them.”

“As such, we are increasing the range of expected Democratic pick ups to five to seven seats. This means that we feel that the prospect that Democrats will have at least 51 seats is greater than the odds of a tied Senate, or of Republicans somehow holding their majority.”

https://politicalwire.com/2016/10/25/senate-democrats-poised-pick-5-7-seats/

[Coyotl]

1. Given Clinton picked up 8% in one week, the Senate will also trend blue.

The wider the Clinton-Trump gap, the more Senate seats is the lesson from all past elections.

[beachbum bob]

2. I believe it can be 7-9. depending on democratic turnout and conservative disillusionment...

[longship]

3. Cook is pretty damned cautious in their projections.

So this bodes well.

Let's take the House, too. (Probably not likely.)