Will the Republicans retake the Senate?  At this point we have really no way to tell and we probably won’t until the polls close in November.  As Nate Silver points out only about 10% of the population actually respond to polling which means that political polling is all but useless.  A majority of the Republican base want to do away with the federal government while a majority of them of them are only able to keep their heads above water water because of Social Security and Medicare.  How can forget the absurdity of people in their medicare supplied scooters screaming “keep the government out of my Medicare.”