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NPolitics1979

(613 posts)
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 08:55 PM Jun 2015

2016 US Senate Election-Democrats will end up with 48 to 51 seats.

Democrats will win by a double digit margin
CA,CT,HI,MD,NY,OR,VT,and WA-44D
Republicans will win by a double digit margin
AL,AK,AR,GA,ID,IA,KS,KY,LA,ND,OK,SC,SD,and UT-44R
Democrats will win by a single digit margin
CO,IL,NV,and WI-48D
Republicans will win by a single digit margin
AZ,IN,MO,NH(Hassan-D does not run),and NC-49R
The Tossup Races are FL,OH,and PA.

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NPolitics1979

(613 posts)
4. Hillary Clinton helps Duckworth-IL and Feingold-WI, Bennet-CO and Cortez Masto-NV will win more
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 09:25 PM
Jun 2015

votes than Hillary Clinton. Hillary will win the 2016 Presidential Election by winning CA,CT,DE,DC,HI,IL,ME,MD,MA,MI,MN,NJ,NM,NY,OR,PA,RI,VT,WA,and WI-246ev plus CO,IA,NV,and NH-271ev or OH and VA- 277ev or FL-275ev
Does Hillary help Sestak-PA,Strickland-OH and Murphy-FL

NPolitics1979

(613 posts)
6. Democrats are secured to win 44 seats.
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 11:11 PM
Jun 2015

45-48(CO,IL,NV,and WI) FL-Murphy-D is 49, 50/51 is OH-Strickland-D/PA-Sestak-D
Possible upsets for Democrats are AZ(Kirkpatrick) and IN(Hill)

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
7. The FL Senate And Presidential Race is going to be fun to watch
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 11:13 PM
Jun 2015

If two main stream center left Dems can't win those offices no Dem can.

brooklynite

(94,657 posts)
3. That's a fair calculation...
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 09:11 PM
Jun 2015

AZ is dependent on whether McCain gets bloodied in a Primary.

My sources tell me Hassan is being heavily pressured to take the D nomination.

former9thward

(32,046 posts)
12. So far only one person running against McCain in the R primary.
Fri Jun 19, 2015, 06:59 PM
Jun 2015

And she is getting no outside money help. She may drop from the race and run for the open CD-1 position.

GGJohn

(9,951 posts)
8. Here's the thing,
Fri Jun 19, 2015, 12:17 AM
Jun 2015

you can make all the predictions you want, but until the election is over and the votes are counted, you, I, the man in the moon have no idea what's going to happen.
There were predictions on this board last year that the Dems would hold the Senate and gain seats in the House, remember that?
How well did that work out?

joshcryer

(62,276 posts)
13. Alison Lundergan Grimes will take Kentucky.
Sat Jun 20, 2015, 04:51 AM
Jun 2015

She did extremely well in 2014 given it was a midterm. She only lost to McConnell by single digits.

The Democrats are going to focus on the KY race for a moral victory.

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