If you listen to the media, we will be facing a Republican Senate in addition to a Republican House in November. This is not, however, a foregone conclusion. In fact, according to Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post, the Democrats have a 51% chance of keeping control of the Senate.
Democrats are now (very slightly) favored to hold the Senate majority on Nov. 4, according to Election Lab, The Post's statistical model of the 2014 midterm elections.
Election Lab puts Democrats' chances of retaining their majority at 51 percent — a huge change from even a few months ago, when the model predicted that Republicans had a better than 80 percent chance of winning the six seats they need to take control.
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Cillizza points to changes in the polling for Colorado and Iowa along with the changes to the Kansas Senate race to explain why the Election Lab model has moved in the Democrats' direction. He also notes that the models used by the The New York Times and Nate Silver have also moved in the Democrats' direction. (You can read Lefty Coaster's Diary about Nate Silver at http://www.dailykos.com/...).
It therefore appears that the Democrats have a fighting chance of holding the Senate this year.
One thing is clear--we have a lot of work to do.