For the last round of United States Senate elections, the polls predicted the conservative Republicans barely gaining some ground but probably failing in several state contests.  Iowa was thought to be very tight.  The Democrat incumbents in Arkansas, North Carolina, Alaska, and Colorado were thought to be gaining enough ground to hold their seats.  It was thought that Michelle Nunn might win Georgia for the Democrats and that Kay Hagan would hold North Carolina for them. In the end, the GOP won every single one of those races.  Joni Ernst won a huge (9-point) victory in Iowa, and so did Tom Cotton in Arkansas, beating Democrat incumbent Mark Pryor by 17 points.  David Perdue beat Michelle Nunn by 8 points, and Pat Roberts – whom the polls consigned to the waste heap – beat his Democrat opponent in Kansas by 9 points.  Republican...(Read Full Post)