HALLOWEEN SCARE: Dems' midterm fears worsen as election forecasters shift more races toward GOP in final weeks
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Election forecasters have shifted more Senate, House and gubernatorial races in Republicans' favor with less than two weeks before the midterm elections.
On Tuesday, Fox News' Power Rankings made changes to five key races, all centered in the Northeastern U.S., a region that's been trending more Democratic in recent years. Brandon Gillespie is an associate editor at Fox News. Follow him on Twitter at @brandon_cg.
The changes included, notably, the New York gubernatorial contest between incumbent Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin, which shifted from "solid Democratic" to "likely Democratic," and the race in the state's 17th Congressional District between Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney and Republican Mike Lawler, which shifted from "lean Democratic" to a toss-up.
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