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Washington Post's election model gives Republicans a 95% chance of winning the Senate.
WAPO ^ | October 10, 2014 | Chris Cillizza

Posted on 10/11/2014 4:29:39 AM PDT by Din Maker

The Washington Post's Election Lab -- our statistical model designed to predict outcomes of the various races on the ballot this fall -- is currently showing Republicans with a 95 percent chance of winning the Senate. While most political handicappers suggest Republicans have an edge in the battle for the Senate majority, few would say it is as heavily tilted toward the GOP as Election Lab. And, even other statistical models -- kept by FiveThirtyEight and the New York Times -- project far more caution about the likely outcome in 25 days time. Nate Silver's model pegs it at a 58 percent chance. The New York Times' at a 66 percent chance.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; polls; senateraces
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To: C. Edmund Wright

My point being that there’s little that can be sprung from DC that has an impact in a state or local election.

In a presidential, you can reveal a drug bust in the past of a candidate, and that will impact the entire electorate.

You can’t tell me Thad Cochran slept with 3 gypsies and a Nazi in Mississippi, and have it impact McConnell in KY.


81 posted on 10/11/2014 7:54:08 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
A RINO Republican wining will increase the power of people like Ted Cruz and Trey Gowdy and Louie Gohmert and Mike Lee and so on. PERIOD. End of that discussion too.

C'mon Edmund; you know that's wishful thinking. I'd love to see Ted Cruz as SML and Trey Gowdy as Speaker of the House. But, when was the last time you saw a Conservative in leadership. As long as we keep McConnell, Cochran, Graham, McCain...... etc. We will never be in leadership.
82 posted on 10/11/2014 8:00:28 AM PDT by Din Maker (I've always been crazy, but, that's the only thing that's kept me from going insane.)
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To: Maceman; All

Rove a distant memory? Pshaw! He’s going to be stick around like a zoster.
He’s been losing since ought 6 and we can’t shake him!


83 posted on 10/11/2014 8:04:37 AM PDT by j.argese (Not anymore!)
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To: srmorton

It sounds like Tillis won the last Debate. But, I wonder if it had a large viewing audience.


84 posted on 10/11/2014 8:05:06 AM PDT by Din Maker (I've always been crazy, but, that's the only thing that's kept me from going insane.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

“......about his lack of support from Tillis....
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Did you mean lack of support “for” Tillis?


85 posted on 10/11/2014 8:08:19 AM PDT by Din Maker (I've always been crazy, but, that's the only thing that's kept me from going insane.)
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To: deport

I’d think there would be more news out there if the Dems thought MS was in play for them.
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They do. And, they are working and wooing disenchanted Republicans They are flying under the radar. Keep watching.


86 posted on 10/11/2014 8:11:43 AM PDT by Din Maker (I've always been crazy, but, that's the only thing that's kept me from going insane.)
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To: Din Maker

Does the model factor in voter fraud?


87 posted on 10/11/2014 8:11:57 AM PDT by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Maceman

Thanks. I respect your answer.


88 posted on 10/11/2014 8:13:02 AM PDT by billhilly (.Have you heard the latest Joe Biden whopper?)
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To: Liz
In Iowa, desperate Democrat Bruce Braley is falling behind Joni Ernst.

It's BRUCE BAILEY, don't you dumbass conservatives even know his name?


89 posted on 10/11/2014 8:16:11 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

You are wrong on all counts. A conservative democrat with a tight senate means Reid can’t provide cover votes. They are also a target to flip.

Rinos who vote with Reid on key votes like closure are the exact thing we do not need. If you think Senator Cruz was helped by shutting down his filibuster, you don’t have a strategy that I am interested in.


90 posted on 10/11/2014 8:24:22 AM PDT by csivils
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To: C. Edmund Wright

I am pulling my hair out over the incompetence of Tillis and few other campaigns.


91 posted on 10/11/2014 8:25:31 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: csivils

With due respect, I’ll stick with my analysis. This is not my first rodeo.


92 posted on 10/11/2014 8:44:22 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: csivils

You also assumed something i never said - you assumed that I don’t think there are some risks and some negatives with RINOs in the Senate. That’s stupid. I never said that. I never said anything that would lead a thinking person to think that.

Read. Carefully. Think. Do not ASSume.


93 posted on 10/11/2014 8:45:44 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: rrrod

I live in NC. The state is deteriorating.


94 posted on 10/11/2014 8:46:53 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

I responded to exactly what you wrote. Not my fault your position as a GOPe cheerleader is a tough one.

For this election, the drawbacks of a rino outweigh the drawbacks of a conservative democrat. To prove me wrong you have to list some benefit that will happen with a GOP senate. This has gone round and round and the GOPe side never scores.

Obama is not up for re-election, forcing him to veto does nothing.
Appointees get rubber stamped. Rinos scream, faint and fold in budget battles. Rinos love the media attention they get when they criticize their own party.

The drawbacks are that rinos will use that window to pass “moderate” legislation while giving Dems bipartisan cover. Every rino in office is one more vote for weak/moderate leadership. It is easier to get rid of a red state dem than a rino. The message to the GOPe that Mississippi can never happen again needs to be loud and clear.

I can list lots of problems with more rinos in the senate. Still waiting for any positive beyond pointless showvotes and prom queen / majority leader.


95 posted on 10/11/2014 9:11:53 AM PDT by csivils
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To: KC_Conspirator

you don’t understand that you are the loser....... you advocate electing democrats


96 posted on 10/11/2014 9:20:06 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: csivils
I responded to exactly what you wrote. Not my fault your position as a GOPe cheerleader is a tough one.

This is where you lose all credibility. That's a retarded lie. You can't find one single syllable to support that you pathetic troll.

97 posted on 10/11/2014 9:21:13 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: Din Maker
Washington Post's election model gives Republicans a 95% chance of winning the Senate.

Women and minorities hit hardest.

98 posted on 10/11/2014 9:23:30 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: gitmo

I split my time between Colombia and the US...have grand kids here in S Florida. We bought a condo in a waiting to die compound...90% NYers..all whiney libs! The few normals folks, conservatives, are Italians from NY.

Ive heard a few times libs mention NC and I just cringe. Id hate to see this type move into NC......

Do everything possible to discourage them from moving to good ol NC....lol!!!


99 posted on 10/11/2014 9:27:09 AM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: Liz

Pollsters: Someone who roll your dice for you at the crap table.


100 posted on 10/11/2014 9:36:38 AM PDT by Vaduz
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