Democrats Had a Big Win in the Senate Elections

CNN: “Winning in Alaska would mean Democrats would have gained nine seats and will hold 56, including the independents who caucus with Democrats: Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine.”

“That nine-seat gain would be tied for the biggest haul of Senate seats in a single election since 1980. Republicans also gained nine seats in the 2014 midterms.”

“And a 56-seat majority would be the second-biggest majority for either party since the 1994 election. The only bigger one over the last three-plus decades was after the 2008 Obama wave, when Democrats for a time held as many as 60 seats.”