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Originally Posted by 2MoreYears
If Democrats win everything will they have filibuster proof majority, are there enough seats up for grabs for that to happen ?
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Technically yes, there's 35 seats in play (all class 2 + 2 special elections). 23 of those are republican, 12 are democratic. If democrats were to completely sweep everything they'd get a 70 seat majority.
That being said, a lot of these seats are not really in play. Democrats won't ever flip a place like Wyoming. Doug Jones is most likely toast in Alabama. Then the republicans representing AZ, CO, ME, NC, are probably toast; and maybe IA, MT, and GA can flip as well.
Like I fully except somewhere between 50+VP to 52 seat majority but I am silently hoping for a 2006-esque blowout. If they were to completely sweep every seat possibly in play (AK, MT, AZ, CO, KS, TX, IA, KY, NC, SC, GA, GA-special, and ME and hold onto AL) then they'd start with 60 seats but this is extremely unlikely to happen.
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