A poll by CNN/SSRS released last Tuesday showed Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen with a comfortable lead in her reelection bid against Republican challenger Sam Brown, getting 50% of the support compared to the Republican's 41% among likely voters in the swing state of Nevada. The incumbent even managed to score a 15-point lead as recently as mid-October.
However, Axios reported that Republicans have cast 45,000 more early votes than Democrats in the state so far, creating the fear of a surprise loss in the state, which would almost certainly mean that Democrats would lose their majority in the Senate next year. Nevada has robust early and mail-in ballot voting with 42% of voters claiming they had already voted one week before election day, according to the aforementioned survey.
