Democrats are ahead of Republicans in almost all of the seven battleground states that will determine which party controls the US senate, according to a final set of polls before Tuesday’s midterm elections. The New York Times and Siena University surveys found that Democrats hold sizeable leads in Texas, which has not elected a Democrat to the senate since 1988, and Kansas, which has not elected one since 1932. To win a senate majority, Democrats need to defend all the seats they currently hold and flip at least four seats currently held by Republicans. It has been seen as an uphill battle because many of the seats they need to win are in Republican strongholds. But the new polls found Democratic candidates ahead in five states that now have Republican senators and effectively tied in a sixth. They hold leads in Kansas, Maine, Ohio and Texas and a narrow edge…
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