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Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
Sat Sep 3, 2016, 12:16 PM Sep 2016

Daily Kos Elections rundown on the most vulnerable Republican Senate seats

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/9/3/1565846/-Here-s-the-Daily-Kos-Elections-rundown-on-the-most-vulnerable-Republican-Senate-seats-in-2016

It's only natural that everyone has been so focused on Donald Trump—how can you look away from that Cheeto-hued Dumpster fire?—but let's not forget that if we want Hillary Clinton to have any shot of enacting the far-reaching progressive agenda she's campaigning on, she'll need a Democratic Congress on her side.

And at Daily Kos Elections, you can trust us to never take our eyes off the ball. We track every key development in every key Senate and House race every day of the week—only serious news, no fluff or bogus "scandals"—and you can read about it all, for free, by signing up for our Morning Digest newsletter.

To give you a taste of the kinds of news we cover, we've put together an overview of the top Senate races that the Democratic Party is targeting this year. Democrats currently hold 46 seats, so they need to win five more for a majority, or four if they keep the White House since the vice president would break ties. Here, in order of the likelihood they change hands, are the seats Democrats are most likely to pick up: ................

I've not read the whole post yet, but so far no tacos.

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Daily Kos Elections rundown on the most vulnerable Republican Senate seats (Original Post) Coyotl Sep 2016 OP
I so wanted to see Grassley in there, but no rurallib Sep 2016 #1
It's unfortunate that Evan Bayh didn't run in 2010. Massacure Sep 2016 #2

Massacure

(7,523 posts)
2. It's unfortunate that Evan Bayh didn't run in 2010.
Sat Sep 3, 2016, 04:53 PM
Sep 2016

The thing that is going to suck for him is that seniority in the Senate is based on continuous length of service. The fact that he is a former Senator means he wins the first tie breaker against every incoming senator he is elected with, but he is beyond everyone elected in 2014.

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