“The dems are dropping like flies.”
This is a good class of seats coming up. This is the same class of seats where we gained two seats in ‘96 and took back senate contol after Jeffords betrayal in ‘02. In ‘08, the democrats won ten seats in Obama’s wave election. So there are ten democratic freshmen and five democratic retirements. Very good sign.
By contrast, the 2012 class was the same class where the republicans took control in ‘94, then lost five seets to a 50-50 senate in ‘00 (before Jeffords betrayal), and then the democrats took six seats six years later.
The third class, the 2010 class was the same class where the republicans gained four seats in the ‘04 presidential year and broke even in ‘98.
So 2014 looks to be a very good year, much better statistically and historically than 2012.