Democrats' chances of regaining Senate majority increased A new poll by The New York Times and Siena University shows that Democratic Party candidates are ahead of their Republican opponents in seven crucial Senate races on the eve of the US midterm elections. However, in most of these contests, the difference between the two candidates is within statistical error. According to this report, Democrats also lead their Republican rivals among independent voters in all seven states surveyed. This supremacy varies from country to country; In a way that Sherrod Brown, the former Democratic senator from Ohio, has an advantage among independent voters by 9 percentage points and Troy Jackson, the Democratic candidate in the state of Maine, by 11 percentage points.