We will have a posting today, but it's a biggie, and stamina is low after the late post on Friday. So, this one will have to be late, too, so we can rest up a little. For now, at least we have today's new polls.

Today's Senate Polls

Our script that double checks polling numbers is confused and frightened by that WaPo poll of Kansas. The warning it gives us right now is "Warning for KS. Republican is ahead by only -10 points." And yet, the numbers are correct. Further, the pollster that WaPo used is a good one—George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government. We're not doing much better than the script is when it comes to accepting that the Democrat is up 10 in Kansas, of all places. But Adam Hamilton is up in the other poll, too, and Emerson tends to skew pro-Republican. There's simply no avoiding the conclusion that the Sunflower State might well be on the cusp of sending a Democrat to the Senate for the first time in 96 years. (Z)

State	Democrat	D %	Republican	R %	Start	End	Pollster
Alaska	Mary Peltola	51%	Dan Sullivan*	49%	Oct 26	Oct 29	AK Survey Research
Illinois	Juliana Stratton	56%	Don Tracy	44%	Oct 21	Oct 30	Activote
Kansas	Adam Hamilton	50%	Roger Marshall	47%	Oct 26	Oct 28	Emerson Coll.
Kansas	Adam Hamilton	54%	Roger Marshall	44%	Oct 22	Oct 26	Washington Post
Minnesota	Peggy Flanagan	48%	Michele Tafoya	41%	Oct 24	Oct 28	SurveyUSA
South Dakota	No Democrat	0%	Mike Rounds*	41%	Oct 22	Oct 26	Concord POP

* Denotes incumbent

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