Nate Silver: Health Care Is Hazardous To Poll Numbers For Grassley, Other Senators

Nate Silver: Health Care Is Hazardous to Poll Numbers for Grassley, Other Senators

One of the things about the so-called Gang of Six -- the group of Senators to which Max Baucus issued an exclusive invitation to participate in health care negotiations -- is that each one started out the year in a place of seeming electoral invincibility. Baucus, Kent Conrad, Jeff Bingaman, Olympia Snowe, Chuck Grassley and Mike Enzi won re-election with an average of 72 percent of the vote as of their last election, and none had a challenger that came closer than 39 points.

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