Among the many features of this unprecedented year: The apparent ability of some Democratic Senatorial candidates to dissociate themselves with the national wave. This is leading to the anomalous situation of the biggest House pickup in 70 years for Republicans but a Senate pickup of 6 or 7, about what the GOP gained in 2002. One of the many ways in which this election is going to rewrite what we think are the ironclad rules governing nationalized elections.
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