Republican Sen. Roy Blunt, once the heavy favorite to win re-election in Missouri, is now in one of the nation’s closets contests, one that could decide the fate of the Senate majority.

“This has been one of the big surprises of this Senate election season,” University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato told the Washington Examiner.

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