Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is predicting a “ticket-splitting kind of year,” acknowledging that the likely presidential nominees of both the Republican and Democratic parties are unpopular and probably will not foster a situation like 2008, when one party conquered the White House, House and Senate, reports The Washington Times.

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