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Democrats Look to Lose 6 to 7 Senate Seats, One Forecast Predicts

Democrats have over a 50 percent probability of losing in seven Senate races in this year's midterm elections, cutting deeply into their current 59-member majority, according to the latest forecast by polling analyst and statistical guru Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com. (Two of the members counted in that current majority are independents Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Bernard Sanders of Vermont). However, Silver forecasts only a 20 percent chance that Democrats will lose 10 or more seats, which would cost them control of the Senate. Silver's modeling shows a new Senate made up of 52.4 ...

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