The results of the midterm elections are in, leaving Republicans with at least 52 Senate seats, along with the likely addition of Alaska, where Dan Sullivan holds a four-point lead. …
The results were not unexpected. The set of Senate seats up for election in this cycle favored Republicans. Polling averages gave the G.O.P. nominal leads in enough races to leave them with 53 seats. The Democrats’ hopes to retain control of the Senate had always rested on the possibility that pollsters as a whole were systematically misjudging the electorate in a fundamental way. And, it turns out, they were — only the opposite way. CONT.
Josh Katz, New York Times