Nate Silver: Latest preelection polling shows ‘blue tsunami’ on horizon

Political analyst Nate Silver predicted Sunday that a “blue tsunami” is on the horizon.

Silver, a political forecaster and statistician, reacted to the newest slate of polling from The New York Times and Siena University showing Democrats leading their GOP opponents in key Senate contests.

“NYT/Siena released their presumably final set of polls this evening, and they showed what can only be described as fantastic numbers for Democrats, putting them ahead — sometimes narrowly, sometimes not — in basically every Senate battleground and in the associated governor’s races, including in Texas,” Silver wrote in his newsletter, noting that much of the polling is in line with his modeling.

The final round of polls released by The Times on Sunday showed Democrats leading in many of the key Senate battlegrounds, including in Michigan by 11 percentage points, in Texas by 7, Kansas........

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