Mirror images of partisan vulnerability in Senate and gubernatorial races

With Mississippi now hosting two Senate races this year, 2018’s Senate and gubernatorial races have achieved something of a mirror-image symmetry.

On the Senate front, Democrats are defending 26 seats (including two independents who caucus with Democrats from Maine and Vermont) while the Republicans, even with the addition of a special election in Mississippi, are still only defending nine.

In the gubernatorial races, it is the Republicans defending 26 seats while the Democrats are defending just nine. CONT.

Kyle Kondik & Geoffrey Skelley, Sabato’s Crystal Ball