"As South Dakota Race Breaks Open, Bizarre Turn Of Events Could Save Senate For Democrats"

As South Dakota Race Breaks Open, Bizarre Turn Of Events Could Save Senate For Democrats

by Samantha Lachman at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/08/south-dakota-senate-_n_5954262.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

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As the 2014 Senate midterm elections were heating up, pundit predictions were all over the map, but on this much they agreed: Democratic seats in Montana, West Virginia and South Dakota were sure to go to Republicans, and Kentucky and Kansas, without question, would remain with the GOP.

Headed into the homestretch now, a bizarre series of events has upended that calculation. A corruption scandal and a third party candidate in South Dakota have thrown that race wide open, while Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) finds himself badly behind an independent challenger after the Democratic nominee dropped out.

Meanwhile, in Kentucky, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) finds himself trailing in a recent survey and Republican Georgia candidate David Perdue, the former head of Dollar General, is under fire for declaring how proud he is of his record of outsourcing. HuffPost's Pollster model still has McConnell and Perdue ahead.

But Kansas, South Dakota, Georgia, Kentucky -- these are not the states Republicans were most worried about.




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