Control of Senate May Hinge on Presidential Race

First Read: “Indeed, in the 40 Senate contests since 2004 rated by the Cook Political Report as either a Tossup or a Lean race, 32 times (or 80%) the Senate contest went the same way as the presidential contest did in the same state. And that’s particularly important when you consider that the 2016 Senate battlegrounds will be in Colorado (Bennet -D), Illinois (Kirk -R), Nevada (Reid – D), New Hampshire (Ayotte – R), North Carolina (Burr – R), Pennsylvania (Toomey – R), Wisconsin (Johnson – R), Florida (Rubio – R), and Ohio (Portman – R).”