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The GOP probably could have had the Senate in 2010 if they hadn’t nominated more extreme candidates. So I think the country kind of dodged the bullet back then.

And in another sense Democrats have been rather fortunate in that for the past couple of decades they’ve had Senate seats from states like North and South Dakota, Montana, Missouri, Arkansas and North Carolina. The likelihood of holding onto those seats wasn’t high over the long term.

At the same time, a lot political and cultural trends—support for gay marriage being one—are flowing against conservatives. So there’s a weird juxtaposition there between the way House and Senate seats are proportioned and what some of the national trends are.