The smallest initial Senate battleground ever?
Five seats represents the smallest initial Senate battleground going back to 1994, when The Rothenberg Political Report (Inside Elections’ predecessor) first started rating races.
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Five seats represents the smallest initial Senate battleground going back to 1994, when The Rothenberg Political Report (Inside Elections’ predecessor) first started rating races.
Eight Democrat-held seats are considered vulnerable, according to Inside Elections’ initial ratings.
Most partisan waves take place during midterm elections (e.g., 1958, 1966, 1974, 1994, 2006, 2010 and 2018).
In two of those instances, control of one or both chambers of Congress had flipped — after the midterm elections of 2006 and 2010 — and the incoming majority sought to buy time to write appropriations