Republicans won six of the eight toss-ups in 2016 and six of the seven toss-ups in 2014.
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Cook also lists 6900 GOP held seats as toss-ups, while only 2628 Democratic seats are also listed as toss-ups.
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Cook also lists 28503 GOP held seats as toss-ups, while only 22019 Democratic seats are also listed as toss-ups.
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Still six months away, RCP estimates Republicans currently have 2900 Senate seats in the next Congress (with eight seats rated as toss-ups) and 220006 House seats (with 2202 seats rated toss-ups).
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Here's a guide to key Senate races: Toss-ups: Wisconsin Sen.
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Many House seats widely accepted as toss-ups — such as Rep.
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At least five other races are frequently cited as toss-ups.
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Democrats, meanwhile, won six of the seven toss-ups in 2012.
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Nineteen more women are in races that are considered toss-ups.
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The first three are Toss-Ups races, while Texas leans Republican.
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The Cook Political Report has rated both districts as toss-ups.
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The nonpartisan Cook Political Report lists all three races as toss-ups.
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The forecast lists three states as toss-ups: Georgia, Nevada and Ohio.
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Trump is likely to get 174 votes, while 76 are toss-ups.
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They are in districts considered toss-ups by Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball.
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Both of these contests are rated toss-ups in our initial rankings.
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Arizona and Nevada are both toss-ups that could go either way.
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Indiana, Montana and North Dakota are considered "toss-ups" by political pundits.
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Many of the districts are rated as "toss-ups" by Cook Political Report.
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" Ten races, including Florida, Georgia and Wisconsin, have been listed as "toss-ups.
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Two are ranked "toss-ups" by political pundits, and nine are considered competitive.
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Nonpartisan handicappers consider both the 19th and 22nd Districts toss-ups in November.
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The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates them as either toss-ups or lean Democratic.
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None are competitive enough for the Cook Political Report to rank them as toss-ups.
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More than $200 million of that sum went to races Cook rates as toss-ups.
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Only five of them favor Republicans, 10 favor Democrats, and six are considered toss-ups.
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And six more have gubernatorial races rated as toss-ups by the Cook Political Report.
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Since then, races in many states have been toss-ups, making every electoral vote important.
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Both Ohio and Nevada were leaning toward Clinton last week but are now toss-ups.
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Among the districts considered toss-ups, Democrats had picked up 11 seats as of Wednesday.
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Of the 22 races now rated as Toss-Ups, 20 are currently held by Republicans.
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Today, the Cook Political Report rates 37 Republican-held seats as toss-ups or worse.
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Knight and Rohrabacher's races are both rated as toss-ups by the Cook Political Report.
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It includes an advantage in 27 of the 153 contests Cook currently lists as toss-ups.
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Republicans, on the other hand, have at least 35 seats to defend, including four toss-ups.
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NBC News lists six states as toss-ups, with 76 electoral college votes up for grabs.
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Critical battleground states including Florida, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina, are all toss ups at this point.
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The Cook Political Report rates three Republican-held seats as toss-ups: Arizona, Nevada, and Tennessee.
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Of the 27 seats currently rated as "toss-ups" by CNN, Republicans control 25 of them.
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The report rated 29 Republican seats and two Democratic seats in the House as toss-ups.
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Nonpartisan analysts consider four House seats — two each held by Democrats and Republicans — as toss-ups.
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Of the 2145 seats CNN rates as "toss ups," 26 of them are held by Republicans.
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Compare that to the total number of Democratic seats rated as toss-ups or worse: three.
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Nonpartisan election analysts rate two seats held by each major party as toss-ups in November.
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The Baldwin and McCaskill races are marked as toss-ups by Larry Sabato's nonpartisan Crystal Ball.
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According to Cook's Political report, 28503 Republican districts are either leaning Democratic or are toss-ups.
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The Cook Political Report, the political analysis site, ranks up to 17 Democratic seats as toss-ups.
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The Cook Political Report calls 41 seats "toss-ups or worse," with only three held by Democrats.
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Fox News' Power Rankings rate the Montana race as one of eight Senate toss-ups this year.
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Of the campaigns that the group backed, eight are labeled toss ups by Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball.
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So neither of these districts are considered by any smart political handicapper as toss-ups or anything close.
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Two high-profile races in which Republican governors are retiring, in Ohio and Georgia, remain virtual toss-ups.
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The Cook Political Report rates both races as "toss-ups" and most recent polls show a dead heat.
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Another 220006 GOP-held seats are considered toss-ups, compared to just three for Democrats in Cook's tally.
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In terms of the bigger picture, most of the 24 toss ups are predominately white middle-class districts.
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There are nearly two dozen Republicans running in races that are currently rated as toss-ups, including Reps.
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Meanwhile, we rate two small states Hillary Clinton won in 20203 as toss-ups: Nevada and New Hampshire.
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At the moment, CNN has 237(!) Republican-held seats rated as toss-ups or worse for the party.
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The 1st and 7th districts are both marked as toss-ups by the nonpartisan Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball.
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Fox News' considers the Montana Senate race to be one of eight toss ups in the 2018 midterm elections .
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And right now, they're already likely to win two Republican-held seats, with five more looking like toss-ups.
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Eleven Republican incumbents face elections in 211 widely seen as toss-ups or leaning against the current office holder.
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However, Clinton's support grew in North Carolina and Colorado, both of which moved from toss-ups to leaning Clinton.
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Those polls could prove to be outliers, but at the very least, both races appear to be toss-ups.
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Both women represent swing districts that are rated toss-ups by The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election handicapper.
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Many of these lawmakers represent districts that are labeled toss-ups or lean Democrat by political analyst Larry Sabato.
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The others are a mix of Toss-Ups and Lean Democratic in CNN's ratings, but they are all competitive.
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It marks 17 Democrat-held seats as toss-ups, which includes districts in New York, Iowa, Virginia and South Carolina.
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Those polls have been close enough that as many as 19 states can be considered as toss ups right now.
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Two are toss-ups, and the remaining eight are either solidly Republican or leaning that way, according to NBC News.
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Elsewhere in the country, Republicans picked up seats in Missouri and Vermont in races that had been considered toss-ups.
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Six states look to be election toss-ups, according to NBC: Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, New Hampshire, Arizona and Utah.
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However, none of the "toss ups" are like Minn-22019 in the heart of Minneapolis, which the uber-left Rep.
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Under these circumstances, Democrats are focused on two districts that are rated toss-ups by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.
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Of the 28 races rated Toss-Ups, the only two currently held by Democrats are the aforementioned contests in Minnesota.
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The breakdown: six Republican seats currently rated as Toss-Ups, eight ranked as Lean Republican and 11 Likely Republican races.
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Among the 30 races CNN now rates as Toss-Ups, only one is currently held by Democrats -- Minnesota's 1st District.
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Ron Johnson's seat in Wisconsin to be toss-ups — their Democratic challengers Tammy Duckworth and Russ Feingold have long led polls.
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There are three GOP seats that Democrats now have a clear edge in winning, while five seats are still toss-ups.
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They are anticipating Sanders will win Vermont, his home state, and see states like Minnesota, Oklahoma and Massachusetts as toss-ups.
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Four of the candidates find themselves in races that CNN has rated as toss-ups, the most competitive in the country.
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CNN currently rates 214 seats as either toss ups (217), leaning toward Democrats (22) or likely (33) to go for Democrats.
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Two are toss-ups -- Minnesota's 23st and 63.63th districts -- and the third, Pennsylania's 41.6th, is rated as a solidly Republican seat.
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The Cook Political Report categorizes eight GOP held seats as likely or leaning toward Democrats, and 28503 more as toss-ups.
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Given the number of GOP seats that are considered leaning toward Democrats or toss-ups, it's possible Democrats will get there.
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John Faso and Claudia Tenney have lagged behind in fundraising going into 2018, as CNN rates their seats as toss-ups.
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Outside of the firewall are three states that appear from polls to be pure toss-ups — Florida, North Carolina, and Nevada.
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Eight states were considered toss-ups in the most recent survey: Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
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All are facing competitive races this year, with Curbelo and Denham's races seen as toss-ups by the Cook Political Report. Rep.
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Of these Trump-state Democrats, CNN rates five of the seats -- Florida, Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota and West Virginia -- as Toss-Ups.
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Just 16 House races are ranked by the Cook Political Report as "toss-ups," and only five Senate races earn that designation.
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Of the 2144 seats currently rated as Toss-Ups, 2155 belong to Republicans -- and Hillary Clinton won 2144 of them in 2112.
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CNN rates only 13 Democratic seats as competitive at all -- with just two "toss-ups" and four that lean in Democrats' favor.
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No, we are the canary in the coal mine MORE (Calif.), who are both in races seen as toss-ups this fall.
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Of the 43 districts now rated as Toss-Ups, 28 belong to Republicans -- and Hillary Clinton won 12 of them in 2016.
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Those three states are rated toss-ups in our inaugural rankings, while Montana and North Dakota both lean Democratic at this stage.
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The list of toss-ups omits some familiar states and includes some that are newer to the ranks of top-tier battlegronds.
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There, two Republican districts are regarded as toss-ups, and a third seat held by an incumbent Republican is only leaning red.
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Of the 29 Republican-held districts considered toss-ups, 18 exceed the average median income and 210 exceed the average education level.
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Trump carried both states by double digits in 2016 and the nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates both Senate races as toss-ups.
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Right now, they're near certain to win one Republican-held seat, they're favored to win another, and five more look like toss-ups.
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According to a Cook Political Report released November, 17 House races that were or are currently held by Republicans are officially toss-ups.
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"Painting is in my veins," the artist is known to say, and he continues doing toss-ups and tagging trains to this day.
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The number of Democratic seats that are toss-ups or where Republicans are favored, according to Cook, can be counted on three fingers.
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In addition, another two dozen GOP seats are rated by Cook as toss-ups, compared to just three seats now held by Democrats.
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Polls show Florida and North Carolina are toss-ups, with Trump holding a 22019-point advantage in Nevada, according to the RealClearPolitics average.
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Cook also noted that of the six states it has classified as toss-ups in the Senate race, Trump leads in just two.
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The Real Clear Politics index categorizes nine Republican seats as "lean" or "likely" Democratic wins and another 41 Republican seats as toss ups.
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At the statewide level, we successfully rated each race, with the "toss-ups" equally divided between those won by Democratic and Republican candidates.
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Minnesota is also hosting four congressional races that are considered "toss-ups" by political pundits in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 8th districts.
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The party would have to take eight GOP seats out of the remaining 29 districts the site classifies as toss-ups in that scenario.
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That's because they have dozens more seats that are either toss-ups or just leaning toward the GOP rather than solidly in their camp.
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FiveThirtyEight considers all six races to be "toss-ups" — where the publication thinks the leading candidate has less than a 60% chance of winning.
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"There's so many seats that are still toss ups, especially in Quebec and Ontario," said Darrell Bricker, chief executive of pollster Ipsos Public Affairs.
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Of the eight Senate races considered toss-ups, seven are currently represented by Republicans: Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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Most of those races are considered to be toss-ups by nonpartisan election handicapper Cook Political Report, while Walters's seat is rated lean Republican.
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The seven Republicans are all considered to be vulnerable, with Frelinghuysen and Bacon representing seats seen as toss-ups by the Cook Political Report.
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"I don't think anyone is surprised in this environment that we're at a place where there are so many toss-ups," the strategist added.
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Already in the Golden State, two Republican-held seats are leaning Democratic, another three are toss-ups, and two more are merely leaning Republican.
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Democrats need to gain just four seats and retain the White House to win back Senate control, and several GOP seats are toss-ups.
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According to Cook Political Report, at least 13 of the existing Republican seats were either toss-ups or prime targets for Democrats to flip.
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The Cook Political Report lists eight Republican-held seats as likely or leaning Democratic, plus 22 toss-ups; no Democratic-held seats are leaning Republican.
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Two Michigan House elections are outright toss-ups, and a couple of others could be in play if Democrats build a big enough blue wave.
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However, several swing states that the Republican challenger must win have shifted from favoring Clinton to toss-ups, offering Trump a possible route to victory.
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Political analysts at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report mark Senate races in Arizona, Colorado and Maine as toss-ups where Republican seats are at risk.
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But several swing states that the Republican challenger must win have shifted from favouring Clinton to toss-ups, offering Trump a possible route to victory.
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Nonpartisan election analysis sites consider all three general election races either toss-ups or favorable to Democrats — if the party fields a candidate in November.
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By contrast, Cook sees only two Democratic-held seats as toss-ups, along with a single Democratic seat it regards as likely to go Republican.
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Comstock, Bacon and Paulsen are all in districts that the nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates as toss-ups, while Roby faces multiple Republican primary challengers.
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There are currently five Democratic Senate seats rated as toss-ups in the nonpartisan The Cook Political Report: Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Montana and North Dakota.
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Anyone who's followed a recent US election knows that in the media, Republican-voting states are considered red, Democratic states blue, and toss-ups purple.
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We rate Knight's and Rohrabacher's districts as toss-ups, while Denham's and Walters' seats lean Republican and Valadao's is likely to remain in GOP hands.
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But the Senate and presidential races, based on Civitas's poll, both look like genuine toss-ups in a state that's typically known as fairly conservative.
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Eliminating toss-ups, Clinton is currently leading in enough states for 333 electoral votes, which would be a resounding victory, just short of Obama's 2008 numbers.
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Based on voter registrations and past voting patterns, these eight states are considered toss-ups: Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
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Nonpartisan election handicappers consider those races toss-ups and potentially crucial to whether Democrats flip the 24 GOP-held seats needed to take a House majority.
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The Cook Political Report deems seven Republican-held districts in the state as potentially competitive, with five of those either toss-ups or favoring Democrats already.
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"We'd need to win toss-ups or even safer Republican seats, but that's what happens in a wave: People get sucked in the undertow," California Rep.
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Over the course of the election cycle, donors have sent $166.8 million to Democratic candidates in the 30 House contests CNN has identified as toss-ups.
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Political analyst Charlie Cook currently rates 17 seats held by House Republicans as "toss-ups" and another five as "leaning" or "likely" to flip to Democrats.
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But Republicans have struck back, dropping major dollars across the airwaves in recent days, helping to fortify Ayotte's position, making the race the truest of toss-ups.
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Of those, 13 are either leaning Republican or solidly in the GOP column; 10 are likely or leaning Democratic, and two are toss-ups, according to NBC.
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Four seats — Indiana, Nevada, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania — are toss-ups according to Sabato, who predicts that GOP incumbents in Illinois and Wisconsin will lose their seats.
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And five of the eight seats that are considered "toss-ups" by one or more of the political pundits rating the races are currently held by Democrats.
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All three states now look like toss-ups, with the PPP poll showing Sanders trailing Clinton by just 5 points, 2023 percent to 41 percent, in Ohio.
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With all this in mind, CNN is moving 2012 seats in the direction of the Democrats, including seven now rated as Toss-Ups, the most competitive designation.
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The Cook Political Report rates more than a half-dozen Republican seats as likely or leaning Democrat and dozens more GOP seats as toss-ups in November.
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In addition to North Dakota, Democratic incumbents in Florida, Indiana and Missouri are locked in tight races viewed by strategists and election handicappers alike as toss-ups.
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Pro-gun control ads were particularly prevalent in races that are considered "toss-ups" by the Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election forecaster, according to The Journal.
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But the nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates only 18 Democratic seats as "toss ups" or worse for the majority party while ranking eight Republican seats that way.
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Republicans are not convinced, citing years of still unrealized Democratic predictions that demographic changes would turn Republican-dominated conservative states like Georgia and Texas into toss-ups.
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If polls underestimate Dems by 2-153 points, their path to victory in the Senate is much more viable; toss-ups go their way, TN/TX close etc.
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Political analysts at the Cook Political Report rank three Senate Republican seats as toss-ups: Susan Collins in Maine, Martha McSally in Arizona and Cory Gardner in Colorado.
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Meanwhile, the electoral battlefield has expanded to more than 60 competitive districts that are likely to shift, be toss-ups, or lean in one direction or the other.
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Heitkamp, Donnelly and McCaskill are in races that are considered toss-ups by Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball, while Baldwin and Tester are in states marked as leaning Democrat.
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SEE A MAP OF THE KEY SENATE AND HOUSE RACES HERE CNN shows these states as "toss-ups," meaning the polling numbers indicate the races are essentially tied.
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The Cook Political Report carries 34 seats that are either "toss-ups" or lean toward party that doesn't currently control the seat; 31 of those are GOP districts.
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Just one Democratic seat is considered a Safe Republican win (again, a result of the Pennsylvania redistricting) and only two Democratic-held seats are rated as toss-ups.
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Related: CNN's Key Races - House CNN's Key Races - Senate According to CNN ratings, 61 Republican seats are either toss-ups (15), leaning GOP (28) or likely GOP (226).
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Still, the Texas Senate seat presents a tougher challenge to Democrats than many of the Republican-held House seats that are considered toss-ups or are even leaning left.
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Trump, on the other hand, must run the table on states Mitt Romney won in 2628 – no easy feat, as Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina look like toss-ups.
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Yet the same day, fresh polling showed how unlikely it is he'll get the chance to implement this legislation as president: Alaska, Arizona, and Texas are now toss ups.
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Of the six states the Cook Report identify as pure toss-ups heading into November, Walter says that Florida is the one that Trump simply cannot afford to lose.
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The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election handicapper, rates the Arizona, Colorado and Maine races as toss-ups, while Ernst's seat is "likely" to remain in the GOP's column.
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Democrats need to pick up 23 seats to capture the House majority, and CNN currently rates 30 House races as pure toss-ups, among dozens of other competitive races.
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Political analysts, such as Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball, show at least 12 Democratic House seats are considered toss-ups in the 2020 election cycle, while only five are for Republicans.
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The Cook Political Report, for example, rates more than a half-dozen GOP-held seats as likely or leaning Democratic this fall — and dozens more GOP seats as toss-ups.
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The nine GOP-held seats that the Cook Political Report ranks as toss-ups for 2018 features two members from New York and one from California, the classic SALT country.
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The independent electoral analysts at the Cook Political Report already rate one vacant seat as likely to flip to Democrats, with two other suburban Republican-held districts considered toss-ups.
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Many of the remaining GOP-held seats CNN rates as toss-ups will test the Democrats' ability to make gains on Trump's strongest ground: mostly white, heavily blue-collar areas.
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But Clinton has little room for error, since the other swing states are either total toss-ups (Florida, North Carolina) or now appear to be leaning toward Trump (Ohio, Iowa).
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Going into the next set of elections, Democrats in the House have at least 11 seats marked as toss-ups, while Republicans only have five, according to Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball.
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From the House to the governor's mansions in Florida and Georgia, offices held for a generation by Republicans are now considered either toss-ups or leaning in favor of Democratic challengers.
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Close on its heels for Democratic activity were the New York 22nd and Maine 2nd, both of which are rated as Toss Ups and where about 1,800 ads aired in each.
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Overall, though, Trump's best path to 270 seems to be to hold Iowa, Ohio, and Arizona, win the toss-ups of Florida and North Carolina, and then win either Pennsylvania or Michigan.
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The flip side is that if Republicans do manage to come close to running the table in those many toss-ups and Lean Republican races, they would maintain control at this point.
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That total does not include states rated as toss-ups, such as Florida and North Carolina, where she appears to have benefited from late momentum or robust Democratic early voting or both.
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The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates four Senate races in Democratic seats -- Florida, Indiana, Missouri and Montana -- as "toss-ups," along with four races in Republican seats--Arizona, Nevada, Texas, and Tennessee.
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Trump also was able to keep traditional swing states like Florida and Ohio is his column while only losing Virginia, Colorado and Nevada of the true toss ups going into the election.
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At the moment, the Cook Political Report, a non-partisan handicapping tipsheet, rates three GOP seats (Arizona, Colorado and Maine) as "toss-ups," while it sees the seat of Democratic Alabama Sen.
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Clinton aides are confident they will win in Florid and North Carolina, but are worried about "toss ups" in Ohio, Illinois and Missouri, states that are more economically and demographically similar to Michigan.
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The nonpartisan Cook Political Report lists all three races as toss-ups, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) dispatched field organizers in an attempt to flip the seats from Republican to Democrat.
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If Republicans lost only the seats they hold that CNN currently rates as toss-ups or leaning toward Democrats, they would lose 28 seats -- five more than Democrats need to retake the majority.
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FiveThirtyEight rates 18 of them as solidly Democrat, five as likely Democrat, three as leaning Democrat, two as toss-ups, two as leaning Republican, one as likely Republican and four as solidly Republican.
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The Cook Political Report lists dozens of GOP-held House seats as toss-ups or likely to fall to Democrats, compared to just a handful of Democratic seats that are up for grabs.
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Four Republican districts — three of which are open seats with no incumbent — fall in the Lean Democratic camp, and 33 GOP-held seats are rated as toss-ups, according to the Crystal Ball.
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Beyond these 143 Republican-held seats that CNN rates as leaning to the Democrats, control of the House will likely be decided in 29 more GOP-held seats CNN classifies as toss-ups.
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You can do different types of fancy calculations, but Democrats are now probably favored in two seats that were at best toss-ups for them before: the new PA-27 and PA-245.
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"They want you to think there's a blue wave when there's not," Mulvaney said Saturday, while acknowledging that House Republicans face a challenging map with a number of GOP-held seats considered toss-ups.
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States with 163 electoral votes are seen as toss-ups on the RCP map, including the nine other traditional battlegrounds as well as Arizona, Georgia and Michigan, which has been a safe Democratic state.
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Those three "Blue Wall" states mentioned above, which Trump flipped in 2192, all start the 22018 campaign as toss-ups, as do three other states Trump carried in 211: Arizona, Florida and North Carolina.
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No place like Kansas Kansas may be one of the reddest states in the union, but this year two of its four House races are considered toss-ups, according to CNN's key race ratings.
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Unlike the geographic trends, this is not likely to change significantly -- races that lean toward one party (but may become toss-ups by November) are even more likely to be in sparse suburban districts.
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Several of the races targeted by the page — the Missouri Senate race, Ohio's 12th Congressional District and Iowa's 3rd Congressional District — are highly competitive and are rated as "toss-ups" by the Cook Political Report.
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At present, 2023 House seats are considered to be especially competitive: Eight seats "Lean Democratic" (six Democratic, two Republican), five seats are "Toss Ups" (two Democratic, three Republican) and eight seats "Lean Republican" (eight Republican).
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Kristen Soltis Anderson, a Republican pollster and columnist, pointed out that the states Trump is targeting are home to multiple congressional races that Cook Political Report currently rates as leans or toss-ups for 2020.
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That would mean they need to net 11 other GOP-held seats from the 30 Sabato's Crystal Ball currently lists as toss-ups, or from a broader pool of less competitive races for GOP-held seats.
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But the CNN demographic analysis found that the median age exceeds the national level (almost 38 years of age) in 30 of the 20063 Republican-held districts rated as toss-ups or better for the Democrats.
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The race has tightened significantly in the past week, as several swing states that are considered must-wins for Trump shifted from favoring Clinton to toss-ups, according to the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project.
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If Democrats win 75% of all the races rated as toss-ups (and take all the GOP seats leaning or likely to go for the opposition party), you are talking about a gain of 40-plus seats.
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The newly created House Victory Project is already spending big on the 22018 midterm elections as the joint fundraising committee looks to boost Democrats fighting to unseat House Republicans in districts that have been deemed toss ups.
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And Republicans have a real chance to flip two House seats in rural parts of the state — the only two Democratic-held seats in the country that the election forecasters at the Cook Political Report consider toss-ups.
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The race for the Oval Office has tightened significantly in the past week, as several swing states that Trump must win shifted from favoring Clinton to toss-ups, according to the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project.
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The race for the Oval Office has tightened significantly in the past week, as several swing states that Trump must win shifted from favoring Clinton to toss-ups, according to the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project.
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And "Wheel of Fortune" has gotten a little more complex over the years, with mini-games within the game, including "crossword rounds" (interwined words linked by a clue) and "triple toss-ups" (one round with three quick puzzles).
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But what's more interesting to note: Some of the targeted districts are in places that didn't lean blue in 2016 and aren't currently considered toss-ups by Cook — especially in traditionally Republican-leaning states like Texas, Kansas, and Kentucky.
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Of the seven Republican women who have made it to the November ballot, one is in a Solid Republican race, two are in Likely/Lean Democratic races, two are in Solid Democratic races, and two are in Toss Ups.
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Furthermore, there are three other close swing states — Florida, North Carolina, and Nevada — that all appear to be total toss-ups at this point, with polling averages showing the differences between Clinton and Trump as 2 points or less.
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The race between Blackburn and Democrat Phil Bredesen, a moderate former governor and Nashville mayor, is one of several Senate toss-ups at stake in next week's midterm elections as Republicans cling to a one-seat majority in the chamber.
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"States like Ohio, states like Florida, Virginia, Colorado -- they're called toss ups and battlegrounds for a reason," Madden said, noting as few as 400,000 voters could be the difference between picking up toss up states and watching your presidential ambitions evaporate.
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Three in 10 Democratic women running for the House are in races that the Cook Political Report rates as "toss-ups" or better, compared to just one in 10 Republican women in House races, according to an analysis by NPR.
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Instead of trying to catch a single tethered ball in a small wooden cup, which probably doesn't appeal to today's kids, Hyper Toss ups the challenge with three different cups and a ball that looks more like a Hacky Sack.
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The battle between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump has tightened significantly in the past week, as several swing states that were leaning toward Clinton are now considered toss-ups, according to the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project.
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Mimi Walters (R-CA) and Love are likely to retain their seats in 2018, McSally and Comstock are both facing elections that a recent Cook Political Report analysis classed as "toss-ups," meaning either party has a good chance of winning.
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SEE A MAP OF THE KEY SENATE AND HOUSE RACES HERE CNN shows many of these races are "toss-ups," meaning the polling numbers indicate the races are essentially tied -- so any influence the weather may play could prove decisive.
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The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election handicapper, currently rates 28503 House races as "toss-ups," while 22019 are seen as "leaning Democratic," after recently shifting a slew of races in favor of Democrats, including the seats held by Reps.
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Most political analysts say Democrats could sweep the House, with handicappers like the Cook Political Report rating more than a half-dozen GOP seats as likely or leaning Democratic in November and dozens of other Republican-held seats as toss-ups.
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Between the lines, from Cook's Dave Wasserman: Republicans would keep the House if both parties picked up an even amount of the toss-ups, but Democrats would take the House and net 28 seats if the competitive seats split evenly.
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Bloomberg injected $22007 million into the midterms, and where he played, he overwhelmingly won: Of the 24 House races he sought to influence, Democrats won 21, and about half of those districts had been considered Republican-leaning or toss-ups.
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If Democrats win all 14 of the Republicans seats that are ranked as solid, likely or leaning their way, they need to win only nine of the 26 GOP seats regarded by CNN as toss-ups to retake the House majority.
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Of the 43 Republican-held seats that CNN considers leaning toward the Democrats or toss-ups, only nine are in districts where the white population exceeds the national average and the share of residents with college degrees lags the national average.
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Across all the 20143 races that CNN defines as toss-ups, Democratic candidates raised nearly $22014 million during the July-to-September fundraising quarter, more than three times the $15 million collected by Republicans in those contests, the tally shows.
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Using the Cook ratings for simplicity (the other ratings and models are not quite exactly the same but are generally similar), 53 Republican-held seats are in that next tier — 29 they rate toss-ups, and 24 others they rate Lean Republican.
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The battle between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican rival Donald Trump has tightened significantly in the past week, as several swing states that were leaning toward Clinton are now considered toss-ups, according to the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project.
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The University of Virginia's Center for Politics model also has Clinton running the table on blue states, guaranteeing that she'll achieve at least 272 electoral votes and potentially as many 323, if toss-ups North Carolina, Florida and Nevada fall into her column.
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Many of those districts won't be swing seats since partisan gerrymandering has limited the number of toss-ups, but the DCCC argued that they'll be expanding the battlefield if they want to flip the 24 seats needed to capture the House majority.
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Democrats, who have high hopes to win back control of the U.S. House of Representatives, see the changing tide in the farm belt as possibly boosting their chances in areas that Trump won in 2016 but are now seen as toss-ups.
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These are the six key states to watch in the race for the White House (they're all toss-ups): ArizonaFlorida MichiganNebraskaPennsylvaniaWisconsin Head to our 2020 Election Forecast to search your state or explore all our predictions for every national contest this year.
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Even if they do reach a majority next week, its likely the Democratic hold on the House will be precarious and very slim unless they can also capture a respectable number of the small-town and blue-collar seats now considered toss-ups.
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Among the notable moves: in MI-08 and KS-03, which are Toss Ups in CNN's Key Race Ratings and in CO-06 and PA-7.83, which are Lean Democratic, Republicans have canceled ads in an attempt to triage races trending in the wrong direction.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The race for the Oval Office tightened significantly in the past week, as several swing states that Republican Donald Trump must win shifted from favoring Democrat Hillary Clinton to toss-ups, according to the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project.
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With a 10 percent GOP defection rate, the math looks like this: That math, of course, assumes that Democrats completely run the table, with none of the party's incumbents losing ground in upsets and all of the "toss-ups" falling in the Democratic side of the aisle.
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First of all, the winner-take-all contest for electoral votes in 48 of the 50 states means, by definition, that candidates in the general election will focus their campaign efforts in states that are considered toss-ups, or at least within the realm of possibility.
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Democrats are energized by the so-called Texodus — so far, six GOP House members from the state have decided to retire rather than seek reelection, including three targeted by Democrats whose races are rated as either toss-ups or lean Democratic by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.
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Trump gains ground on Clinton: Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation The race for the Oval Office tightened in the past week as several swing states that Donald Trump must win shifted from favoring Hillary Clinton to toss-ups, according to the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project.
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There are too many toss-ups to figure a final margin in the upper chamber, but if you're looking for potential upsets or polling mishaps — beyond the close races — Republicans believe they have opportunities in New Jersey and Minnesota, while Democrats have their eyes on Texas and Tennessee.
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" He adds later: "At this point, we see the Democrats with slightly better odds to get their required share of the 'toss-ups' based largely on the environment, but also because they appear to have well-funded and credible challengers in these districts that can capitalize on that environment.
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According to the Cook Report, it moves four districts closer to the Democratic column than under the previous map, resulting in six and seven districts either sure or likely to go for the Democratic and Republican candidates, respectively, along with five others that lean either way or are toss-ups in the upcoming election.
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And the suburbs happen to be precisely where white college graduates tend to congregate: in the 38 districts currently rated by the Cook Political Report as either "toss-ups" or merely "leaning" towards one party or the other, an average of 28% of over-123s are white and have a college degree, compared with 22% in all other races.
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It is not only the lack of attention that serves to depress turnout in states not considered toss-ups; it is also the lack of motivation to turn out for a voter in a solidly red or blue state when that voter's candidate doesn't stand a chance in Hell of winning any of the states' electoral votes.
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He has spent years fighting against climate change and illegal guns, and he's been an important supporter of Democrats down the ballot, which I explained earlier this year: Bloomberg injected $110 million into the midterms, and where he played, he overwhelmingly won: Of the 24 House races he sought to influence, Democrats won 21, and about half of those districts had been considered Republican-leaning or toss-ups.
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Had Putin ended up coming to Washington this fall, his visit might very well have directly impacted the balance of power in the House where there are now over 30 Republican-held House seats deemed "toss-ups" --by Sabato and other mainstream political oddsmakers - far more than the 23 seats the Democrats need to flip to take back control The evisceration that Trump received back home in the US -- including from his own party -- following his widely criticized performance in Helsinki had become a political liability.
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