Republicans Gain Advantage in 2012 Battle for Senate Majority
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As the parties prepare for the 2012 congressional elections, Republicans have an advantage in the fight for control of the U.S. Senate.
Fewer than a dozen Senate seats now appear to be in play, and almost all of them are held by Democrats, said Jennifer Duffy, an analyst at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. Two Senate Republicans face competitive challenges, Nevada freshman Dean Heller and Scott Brown of Massachusetts, who in 2010 broke Democrats’ 60-vote majority bloc after winning a special election to replace the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, a Democrat.