 Republicans ended up gaining 63 seats in the House, and coming away with 47 Senate seats.In 2010, Rasmussen Reports was the first to show Republican Scott Brown had a chance to defeat Martha Coakley in the Massachusetts Senate race.Just after Brown's upset win, Ben Smith at "Politico" reported, "The overwhelming conventional wisdom in both parties until a Rasmussen poll showed the race in single digits in early January was that Martha Coakley was a lock.