Posted on 01/20/2013 1:43:31 PM PST by SMGFan
While Obama is officially sworn in today as President for another four years, smart strategists are keeping their eye on the 2014 ball. There are 32 senators up for reelection in 2014. Of those, 20 are Democrats and 13 are Republicans. With Senator Rockefeller's (D-W.Va) retirement in 2014, an additional senate seat is in play. Democrat resources will be spread thinner than the GOP's on account of this seven seat discrepancy; there will be a Republican advantage in the upcoming campaign season. Digging deeper, 12 of those 20 Democrat seats come from a state that is red or swing: Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana, South Dakota, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Carolina, W. Virginia, and Virginia. Those seats are vulnerable should the party run strong candidates.
An additional advantage for the GOP is Obama's latest attempt to encourage some kind of gun control legislation. Those senators in gun-friendly states will have to choose: either back the President's gun control agenda or risk handing their GOP opponents an effective talking point.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
we had quite a 2012 senate edge too.
yeah and it’s Romney in a landslide!
That is ...unless one or more brain dead candidates decide to talk about “legitimate rape”.
Let’s see how they vote on amnesty first.
crapploa....they should have picked up 6 seats in November. losers.
Hindsight will always be 20-20. Maybe we should have concentrated on the senate and concede the WH. I SAY THAT ONLY BECAUSE OF WHAT THE SON-OF-A-MITT said.
Isn’t that the same lie the GOP elite told us in 2012? Plus Romney had it in the bag, too.
Don’t believe the elites. They are in league with the MSM and NWO and lie to us constantly. Don’t throw your money away on the GOP when the race is already fixed.
2014 Senate Contest Summary
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State - Senator - Party
Alaska - Mark Begich - Democrat
Arkansas - Mark Pryor - Democrat
Colorado - Mark Udall - Democrat
Delaware - Chris Coons - Democrat
Hawaii (special) - Brian Schatz - Democrat
Illinois - Richard Durbin - Democrat
Iowa - Tom Harkin - Democrat
Louisiana - Mary Landrieu - Democrat
Massachusetts - John Kerry - Democrat
Michigan - Carl Levin - Democrat
Minnesota - Al Franken - Democrat
Montana - Max Baucus - Democrat
New Hampshire - Jeanne Shaheen - Democrat
New Jersey - Frank Lautenberg - Democrat
New Mexico - Tom Udall - Democrat
North Carolina - Kay Hagan - Democrat
Oregon - Jeff Merkley - Democrat
Rhode Island - Jack Reed - Democrat
South Dakota - Tim Johnson - Democrat
Virginia - Mark Warner - Democrat
West Virginia - Jay Rockefeller - Democrat
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Alabama - Jeff Sessions - Republican
Georgia - Saxby Chambliss - Republican
Idaho - Jim Risch - Republican
Kansas - Pat Roberts - Republican
Kentucky - Mitch McConnell - Republican
Maine - Susan Collins - Republican
Mississippi - Thad Cochran - Republican
Nebraska - Mike Johanns - Republican
Oklahoma - Jim Inhofe - Republican
South Carolina - Lindsey Graham - Republican
South Carolina (special) - Tim Scott - Republican
Tennessee - Lamar Alexander - Republican
Texas - John Cornyn - Republican
Wyoming - Mike Enzi - Republican
Sounds racist.
They will need more than luck.
I think the comment under the story about vetting our candidates better says it all. The GOP could conceivably pick up several seats in 2014 (though I doubt a majority is within grasp), but we have to be better at scrutinizing our candidates, or we’ll see the disappointments of 2012 (and to an extent, 2010) all over again.
we MUST find good conservative candidates and not let Karl Rove pick them.
Uh Oh, we're in trouble.
Whether it is a talking point or not, does not matter a hill of beans. I have confidence that the pubbies will cave on every issue under the sun. They have priors. The scuzz balls.
Which of these Republican seats would you class as ‘vulnerable’?
As a side note to the the 2014 Senate elections, please consider the following.
Constitution-ignorant citizens who were spooked by the pro one-world-government Progressive Movement to put pressure on their state lawmakers to ratify the ill-conceived 17th Amendment in 1913, that amendment giving citizens the right to vote for federal senators, evidently did not understand the following. They did not understand that the only Article I, Section 8 power that the Senate had to regulate daily peacetime activities in the lives of citizens was to regulate postal services (1.8.7).
Sadly, to this day, many citizens evidently still do not understand that most of Congress’s official actions concerning its regulation of daily domestic issues are based on 10th Amendment protected state powers which many generations of Congress and presidents have unconstitutionally usurped from the states.
Apparently, DR.Jill forgot to medicate him...
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