Around this time last month, I wrote a piece for Fox News headlined “Why I am still betting on Republicans to hold the Senate (but check with me in a month).” Since then, readers have been checking in via email and social media to see what I think will happen with House races in the Nov. 6 midterm elections. Let me remind everyone to take what I say with a lot of salt – after all, I predicted a Hillary Clinton win in 2016! So while leading pollsters, such as FiveThirtyEight.com, forecast a 6 in 7 chance of Democrats winning enough seats to control the House, you can also turn those numbers around. It is also true that FiveThirtyEight.com is predicting a 14.2 percent chance that Republicans hold the House majority. That means the GOP has better odds of winning than gamblers holding lottery tickets. That gives Republicans reason to hope that the “Blue Wave of 2018” will go down in history along with Clinton’s fabled Electoral College “Blue Wall” of 2016. OK, now – with a big helping of humility – here are my predictions based on the best available polling, fundraising data and 40 years of experience covering political campaigns. Like the baseball umpire said, “I calls ‘em like I sees ‘em.” At the moment, the Democrats look to have the wind at their backs as they try to gain the House majority. The Republicans, similarly, have the lead as we enter the homestretch of the campaign in their fight to hold onto their majority in the Senate. But having written about the Senate r
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