Retain its 15 seats, plus win 60. According to conventional and Mclaughlin Group wisdom and polling, the g. O. P. Will safely win three of these seats from the democrats. The states of montana, south dakota, and west virginia. That means the plus three pickup for the gop with three more seats needed to win the senate. The ten remaining races are cliff hangers. Meaning its anyones game. Seven are democratic, three are republican. Lets begin with alaska, incumbent democratic versus republican, dan sullivan. Question, who will win in alaska . Pat buchanan. Red, red state alaska, sullivan is going to take that one going away. Eleanor. I think he can pull it out. His father was in the congress before he is a well known name in alaska. By alaska standards, sullivan is a carpet bagger. Its too close to call, but im betting that he is going to lose because sullivan, well, hes had a number of bad turns in his campaign and sullivan crept up on him. I think he wins as well. I just dont see how it
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Ebola. The price tag, up to 1. 26 billion. Including 175 million allocated. Help set up 17 field hospitals and 100 beds each. They will establish a headquarters in the nation of liberia to coordinate relief efforts, but the military must rely on biowarfare to protect its people against ebola. No direct contact with patients suffering from ebola. Question, is this a proper role for the u. S. Military . The United States is doing more than anyone else, john. The reason the u. S. Army and military is doing it because theres no one that can move that fast and do that much. There is a real element of risk here. If any of these american soldiers should come down with this disease and be brought home or a number of them, you could have a hellish problem. But john, this is a very serious matter. I think the thing is, it has not mutated yet to where the disease can be airborne from one person to another and still, you have to exchange some kind of fluid. So thats one good thing about it. But if
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Yachi, met with Chinese State counselor yang jiechi. Japanese officials want to hold the summit without any conditions. But their chinese counterpart said japan should first recognize there is an issue of sovereignty over islands in the east china sea. Japan controls the Senkaku Islands. China and taiwan claim them. The japanese government maintains the islands are an inherent part of japans territory. It says there is no issue of sovereignty to be resolved. China also said it wants abe to state clearly that he wont make any more visits to yasukuni shrine. The shrine in tokyo honors japans war dead. Those remembered include leaders convicted of war crimes after world war ii. Prime minister abe will fly on sunday to join other World Leaders at the apec meeting in beijing. Japanese Officials Say they have been engaged in quiet negotiations with their chinese counterparts on how to improve bilateral ties. They released the document that lays out their fourpoint agreement. It says that bot