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Analyze and summarize the following news-like text snippet: 
After Doug Jones’ unexpected win in the Alabama Senate race Tuesday night, jubilant Democrats could hardly contain their enthusiasm about what it means for next year’s midterm elections.
The upset win in deeply conservative Alabama, which hasn’t had a Democratic senator in two decades, reduced the Republican majority in the upper chamber to 51 while also showing that Democrats could compete in states they haven’t done well in recently.
But the optimism masks a tough reality, at least in the Senate. In 2018, Democrats will be defending 26 seats, including two independents who caucus with them. Ten of those seats are in states President Trump won in 2016, and five are in states where he won by over 15 percentage points. Republicans, on the other hand, are only defending eight seats.
Republicans have seized on this dynamic, targeting Missouri and Indiana, state where President Donald Trump won handily last year and Sens. Claire McCaskill and Joe Donnelly are running for reelection, as two...<|im_end|>
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The provided text appears to be a news article or similar content. A brief summary could be: After Doug Jones’ unexpected win in the Alabama Senate race Tuesday night, jubilant Democrats could hardly contain their enthusiasm about what it means for next year’s midterm elections.
The upset win in deeply conservative Alabama, which hasn’t had a Democratic senator in two decades, reduced the Republican majority in the upper chamber to 51 while also showing that Democrats could compete in states they haven’t done well in recently.
But the optimism masks a tough reality, at least in the Sena... (Further analysis would depend on the specific query.)<|im_end|>
