These tables reflect only the Democrat seats that are up this year. While a few Republican seats are not absolutely certain, we project the Republicans will retain all of their existing seats. At this time, if the toss-ups break 3 - 2 for the Republicans as we show here, there will be a tie in the Senate since the two independents caucus with the Democrats thus giving Vice-President Biden the tie breaking vote. The 5 toss-up seats will decide who controls Congress. Last month Kirk was ahead by 3 points over Giannoulias in the polls but he is down 1 this month so we had to transfer Illinois from Republican toss-up to Democrat toss-up.
STATUS | DEMOCRATS | TOSS-UPS | REPUBLICANS | INDEPENDENTS |
NOT UP THIS YEAR | 39 | | 23 | 2 |
UP THIS YEAR | 7 | 5 | 24 |
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TOTALS | 46 | 5 | 47 | 2 |
SAFE DEMOCRAT | LIKELY DEMOCRAT | DEMOCRAT TOSS UP |
STATE | SENATOR | PROB | Connecticut | Open | -6.8% | Hawaii | Daniel Inouye | -577.8% | Maryland | Barbara Mikulski | -23.8% | New York | Chuck Schumer | -189.1% | Vermont | Patrick Leahy | -284.4% | 5 DEMOCRATS | STATE | SENATOR | PROB | New York | Kirsten Gillibrand | 35.6% | Oregon | Ron Wyden | 15.5% |
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| | 2 DEMOCRATS | STATE | SENATOR | PROB | California | Barbara Boxer | 46.9% | Illinois | Open | 46.3% |
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REPUBLICAN TOSS UP | LEAN REPUBLICAN | LIKELY REPUBLICAN |
STATE | SENATOR | PROB | Nevada | Harry Reid | 54.3% | Washington | Patty Murray | 52.2% | Wisconsin | Russ Feingold | 54.6% |
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| 3 DEMOCRATS | STATE | SENATOR | PROB | Arkansas | Blanche Lincoln | 65.1% | Colorado | Michael Bennet | 63.5% | Delaware | Open | 65.4% | Indiana | Open | 67.7% | Penn. | Open | 61.7% | 5 DEMOCRATS | STATE | SENATOR | PROB | North Dakota | Open | 85.9% |
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