Liberal Heartache: Nate Silver Predicts 50% Chance Republicans Will Gain 50 House seats

Republicans need 40 seats to tack back control of the House. It must really kill the liberals at the New York Times to admit Republicans will likely gain 50.

Our model now estimates that the Republicans have a 72 percent chance of taking over the House, up from 67 percent last week. Moreover, they have nearly even odds of a achieving a net gain of 50 seats; their average gain in a typical simulation run was between 47 and 48 seats. However, the playing field remains very broad and considerably larger are possible, as are considerably smaller ones.