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tgards79

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Mon Aug 20, 2018, 07:43 PM Aug 2018

BTRTN Senate and House Mid-Term Snapshot: Still a Split Decision

BTRTN’s latest on the race for control of Congress, complete with the odds of a Dem takeover of the House, and of the Senate:
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2018/08/btrtn-senate-house-mid-term-snapshot.html

"The headline of our latest mid-term “snapshot” is that the basic dynamic remains the same: the Democrats have an excellent chance to take over the House in November, and an outside chance to do the same in the Senate.

We have new proprietary BTRTN models that calculate the odds of the Democrats taking over each branch of Congress. These odds will be updated frequently and sit atop our “right hand column” (as you can see). If Election Day were today – and it is important to note this is not a prediction, just a snapshot of where things stand -- here are the latest odds of the Democrats taking over the House and the Senate in the 2018 mid-terms..."

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