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November 10, 2006
Senate Races in 2008
Just 2 short years before we are back into the heart of the political maelstrom again in America. Markos has already started handicapping the races that we need to be looking at. Luckily here in Maryland we have no Senators up for reelection, so I get to focus on the Presidential campaign and possibly a Congressional seat pick up. We are aided massively by the civil war going on within the Republican party right now. The radical extremists of the Bush camp are working hard to push the party further right than it already is, which means they are moving farther and farther from mainstream of America and that means that their better candidates are forced to bow to extremists in the primary to win and then are so damaged in the process they can't get elected. The other advantage we have is that the Democrats only have 12 seats up for reelection, the Republicans have 21 to defend. The Democrats will have a much more battle tested GOTV machine to match the faltering 72 hour plan. I'm going to have to think about some of these seats, but Markos' analysis seems correct on the surface of it all.
Top Democratic Pickup Opportunities: Colorado, Kentucky, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oregon, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Potential Democratic pickup opportunities: Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma.
Top GOP Pickup Opportunities: Louisiana, New Jersey, South Dakota
Potential GOP pickup opportunities: West Virginia
Read more over at Daily Kos.
Posted by Jamison at November 10, 2006 7:58 AM
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