In 2006 and 2008, Democrats made net gains larger than what they need to take the Senate this year.
By
Ed Kilgore,
political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015
Sherrod Brown flipped a seat in 2006 and helped Democrats flip the Senate. He’s back this year to try the same thing.
It says a lot about the evolving conventional wisdom on the 2026 midterm elections that professional contrarian Harry Enten of CNN felt the need to explain that Democrats don’t exactly have a lock on flipping control of the U.S. Senate in November:
Harry Enten Has Bad News For Democrats Hoping To Flip The Senate: ‘It’s A Math Problem’
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