by Kaylor » Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:56 pm
Doesn't seem too likely that Republicans can take control of the Senate. Numbers just are not there since only one-third of Senate is up for grabs any year. This year there are 36 seats up with 18 each currently held by both sides. That means Republicans would have to hold all of their own and win more than half of the Democrats' seats to get a majority. The problem for Republicans is that many of the seats are not even that competitive (i.e., Vermont, Connecticut, Maryland, 2 in New York, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, and California). In addition to those pretty easy wins, Democrats will likely keep others and might even take a Republican seat or two. Republicans will probably get a net gain of 4 or 5 seats but that's only half of what they need.