Reply #28: You have to look at it [View All]

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From an overly pessimistic point of view, if you don't we get things like 1994. I mentioned Michigan because its well known that the Pukes want to take down Stabenow, and will do whatever it takes. Washington may be a blue state but Maria Cantwell is a one term senator who has been very undistinguishable in her one term in office and a recent poll shows Dino Rossi beating her, which dealing with an incumbent is never a good thing. There's no reason to lose Maryland's seat, but it looks like there putting all there chips behind Daniel Steele and were going to have a pretty competitive primary and if our primary gets too bloody Steele might be able to steal it(no pun intended). Your assessment of my two senators in WI isn't exactly true. Kohl's actually the more popular one, he got 62% in his last election while Feingold got 55%, but Feingold is the much better campaigner. Making this very clear only Tommy Thompson would be able to beat Kohl, and Thompson would've given Feingold the fight for his life had he decided to run.

Personally I don't think we'll take back the Senate, but I'm hoping we can have 47,48 Senators, so when 2008 comes up we'll have a good chnce to take back the Senate. Because looking at 2008, things look good. We only have 10 Senators up for re-election and of those 10, only 2 maybe 3 look to face a real challenge. I'm not too sure what to think about Johnson in SD, he won by a measly 527 votes. I don't know if this was due to him facing a strong candidate in Thune or if this is due to him being in a strong Puke state. Then you have Landrieu who faced a difficult re-election and will probably face another one, and Pryor in Arkansas, if the Gov. decides to run against him he could face a difficult challenge. Other than those 3 the other 7 should cruise to re-election. While they have Allard, Coleman, maybe Collins, Talent, Sununu, Smith, and maybe Alexander in Tennessee who they could all be worried about.