Press poll: GOP sure did roll

Anybody smirking at predictions of a Republican coup on Tuesday might be a little less smug now. Even though 826 voters on the most recent Press online poll predicted Republicans would take both the U.S. House and Senate, they weren’t far off. The Republican surge in the House marked the biggest turnover in more than 70 years, and Republicans also cut deeply into the Democrats’ majority in the Senate.

Also in the Press poll, 286 voters said they thought Democrats would maintain majorities in both chambers; 293 said Republicans would take the House but not Senate. And 28 voters said Republicans would win the Senate but not the House.