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Understanding the Electoral College: Breakdown and Significance

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Upcoming UK and French Elections: What You Need to Know

All You Need to Know About the UK Elections With the UK general election slated for July 4, 2024, the political scene is at par. The Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, called for a sudden election on May 22nd during a very unstable political time, hoping to secure his position. However If current polls are correct and the opposition Labour Party wins, it will end 14 years of Conservative rule. This…

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Ratings Change: Franken’s Minnesota Seat Starts as Likely for Democrats

Ratings Change: Franken’s Minnesota Seat Starts as Likely for Democrats

Sen. Al Franken’s resignation puts another Democratic seat into the 2018 mix, but it’s still unclear whether his departure provides Republicans with a legitimate takeover opportunity.

In order to handicap a race, it’s helpful to know where the contest will take place and who is running. In this case, we know the place is Minnesota, where Hillary Clinton narrowly won in 2016, 46-45 percent, despite Donald Trump’s surge in the Midwest. And where Republicans haven’t won a Senate race since Norm Coleman’s 2-point win in 2002.

But we don’t know whom DFL Gov. Mark Dayton will appoint, if that person would seek election to fill the remainder of the term, and who the eventual GOP nominee will be. Those are all key components to understanding the contours of the race.

We’ll add the seat to the 2018 class as Likely Democratic until some of those outstanding questions have answers. Minnesota’s other Senate seat, held by DFL Sen. Amy Klobuchar, is already on the 2018 docket (and rated as Solid Democratic), which means both seats will be on the ballot next year. http://media.cq.com/electionguide/senate/ 

If Republicans have their hearts set on picking off Franken’s old seat, they’ll be running against the partisan lean of Minnesota and history. 

Over the last 70 years, there have been 27 times when both of a state’s Senate seats were up for election. In 24 of those instances (89 percent of the time), one party won both seats. 

Most recently, Republicans won regular and special Senate elections in Oklahoma and South Carolina in 2014. Republicans did the same thing in 2008 in Wyoming and Mississippi, even though Democrats had high hopes at one point for former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove, before he lost to appointed-GOP Sen. Roger Wicker, 55-45 percent.

In two of the three instances in which candidates from different parties won concurrent Senate races, the split results maintained the partisan status quo before the election, which wouldn’t help Republicans in Minnesota.

In Idaho in 1962, Democratic Sen. Frank Church won re-election while appointed GOP Sen. Len Jordan’s victory retained the Republican seat. And in South Carolina in 1966, Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond won re-election, just as Democrat Fritz Hollings held the Democratic seat after defeating the incumbent in the primary.

The third case of a split result was in New Hampshire in 1962, when Republican Sen. Norris Cotton won re-election, while his party lost the state’s other Senate seat. The Senator who had been appointed to fill that vacancy and who ran to fill the rest of the unexpired term, Maurice Murphy Jr., lost in the Republican primary, and Democrat Thomas McIntyre defeated GOP Rep. Perkins Bass in the general election.

An appointed senator and potential open seat gives Republicans an opportunity in a seat that wasn’t even part of the 2018 class. But the GOP will need a solid candidate and the quality of the field will likely be determined by the perceived strength of the Democratic nominee.

View Article at Inside Elections

http://www.insideelections.com/news/article/ratings-change-frankens-minnesota-seat-starts-as-likely-for-democrats