Every big Senate race just got closer

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

A new wave of polling shows virtually every close Senate race growing even more competitive, raising the pressure on both parties in the final days of the midterm campaign.

In several states, Democratic candidates are on the upswing. Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Sestak, after trailing Republican Pat Toomey for months, took slim, 1- and 3-point leads in a pair of surveys released this week.

In Colorado, Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet cut Republican prosecutor Ken Buck’s advantage to a 3-point gap in a Reuters/Ipsos poll that placed Buck 9 points up as recently as August. In Wisconsin, a survey from Wisconsin Public Radio and St. Norbert College placed Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold closing to within 2 points of plastics executive Ron Johnson, who has held high, single-digit leads in most other recent polls.

That polling gives Democrats hope that they could hold their Senate defeats to a bare minimum, retaining most seats beyond the all-but-lost GOP targets of North Dakota, Indiana and Arkansas.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43897.html

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As I've said before, the individual daily polls are irrelevant -- we should assume, broadly, that all the races are competitive and will be decided by a point or two.