Dem
48
GOP
52
The race for president gets most of the attention, and the Senate gets the rest. The House is kind of ignored, but is clearly important. If the party not occupying the White House captures either chamber of Congress, the president can stand on his/her head, but almost nothing will get done because the "out" party wants the president to fail. Remember when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said his top goal was to make Obama a 1-term president? Nothing has changed.
Several pundits track House races. One of them is Charlie Cook (and his team). He just changed his predictions on eight House races as follows:
Six of the eight changes favor the Democrats, but three of the calls are the most important, namely the three that change a toss up to a lean. Cook thinks the Democrats will oust Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) and Rep. Anthony D'Esposito (R-NY) but lose Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)'s seat. Changes between Lean and Likely don't mean so much.
With the House so close and so many tight races in New York and California, in even a small blue wave, the Democrats have a decent chance to capture the House, but probably with a small majority. If that happens, they will have to stick together to get anything done. With cat-herder-in-chief Nancy Pelosi no longer herding the cats, it won't be easy. (V)