Polling analytics website FiveThirtyEight predicted that the Republican Party is favored to take the Senate as it shifted its previous “toss-up” prediction for the upper chamber .
The publication as of Saturday night lists Republicans’ odds of winning the Senate at 55 in 100, as opposed the Democrats’ 45 in 100 chances. Several days before that, it said that the Senate is in a “dead heat.”
Republicans, it added, have a 54 in 100 chance of winning both the House and the Senate, while Democrats have a 30 in 100 chance of winning the Senate and losing the House. Overall, it says the GOP has an 84 in 100 chance of re-capturing the House….