Posted on 11/03/2004 7:15:14 PM PST by tellw
2006 ELECTION CYCLE
Republicans (15) Previous %
George Allen of Virginia 52%
Conrad Burns of Montana 51%
Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island 57%
Mike DeWine of Ohio 60%
John Ensign of Nevada 55%
Bill Frist of Tennessee 65%
Orrin Hatch of Utah 66%
Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas 68%
John Kyl of Arizona 79%
Trent Lott of Mississippi 66%
Richard Lugar of Indiana 67%
Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania 52%
Olympia Snowe of Maine 69%
Jim Talent of Missouri 50%
Craig Thomas of Wyoming 65%
Democrats (17) Previous %
Daniel Akaka of Hawaii 73%
Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico 62%
Robert Byrd of West Virginia 78%
Maria Cantwell of Washington 49%
Thomas Carper of Delaware 56%
Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York 55%
Kent Conrad of North Dakota 62%
John Corzine of New Jersey 50%
Mark Dayton of Minnesota 49%
Dianne Feinstein of California 56%
Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts 73%
Herb Kohl of Wisconsin 62%
Joe Lieberman of Connecticut 63%
Bill Nelson of Florida 51%
Ben Nelson of Nebraska 51%
Paul Sarbanes of Maryland 63%
Debbie Stabenow of Michigan 49%
Independent (1) Previous %
Jim Jeffords of Vermont 66%
Mike Rogers in 06!!!!!
I doubt we can replace Chaffe and Snowe with Republicans. :-P
There is a possibility for Michigan to beat Debbie Stabenow. They could run current Rep. Candice Miller. She won statewide 2x as Secretary of State. Rep. Miller is in the old seat of the pit yorkie, David Bonior.
I think we could get John Corzine. Maybe we can get Gov. Romney to run against Sen. Kennedy to take out the old man. I also would love to take out old man KKK Byrd.
She might leave two years early in order to concentrate on a 2008 presidential run.
Pataki has his sights on the Senate. I assume Lazio got 45% of the vote since Hitlery got 55%(I thought she did better than this). Pataki should be able to do better than Lazio since he is very popular in upstate NY.
Nelson of Fla needs to go - he tries to play it safe but he is a light weight-I think DAve Weldon can take him on- then Hilldebeast,Ted Kennedy, Corzine and Cantwell-
If Corzine doesn't run for the Senate, Al Leiter might want run for the seat if he decides to retire from the Mets after this year. But this is probably a long shot
Nelson of NE is definitely a candidate for a party switch. Otherwise he could be facing a very tough challenge from Governor Johanns who's going to decide on a run in the next few weeks. That would offset a defection from that panty waist Chafee.
What if Sarbanes retires and Michael Steele decides to run? What if Kennedy retires and Mitt Romney goes for it? What if Corzine goes for Governor, and Schundler goes for it?
Will Lugar, Lott run again? Frist isn't going to. So who will the GOP run in Tennessee?
Just a few thoughts.
Romney would be better as a Presidential candidate perhaps.
The rumors are out there, but Perry looks like he is running for re-election, and Carole Keeton Rylander McClellan Strayhorn is gearing up for a nasty fight. I wouldn't be surprised to see Frost run for the Democrat nomination. Diversity didn't seem to work for the Dems last time.
The off-year for Talent is HUGH. He's not quite strong enough, yet for a presidential election year race.
Just bluster right now. No one leaves to join the minority party.
It is probably true that Chafee could win more easily in 2006 as a Democrat. I think he may well switch, like Ralph Hall, D-TX, was "forced" to do in January.
If Hutchison runs for governor, many think that Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who is all over the air with PSAs on education, will seek Hutchison's Senate seat.
Also Sen. Jim Talent, R-MO, is up in 2006. Elected in 2002 initially, he won a four-year unexpired term.
NO, Strom Thurmond left the majority Democrats in 1964 to become a minority Republican UNTIL 1981.
I also would love to take out old man KKK Byrd.
Twice the people of WV have defied the odds and upset Robert C. Byrd by voting for GWB for President. They would never go so far as to retire Robert C. Byrd. He is the "Mount Rushmore" of WV.
If the rumors are true and some of W's cabinet members retire their replacements could be qualified Senators from states with GOP governors so that governor can replace them with a Pubbie as Senator. Not sure who they could be- anyone know?
But didn't people say the same thing about Osama Mamma Patty Murray?
Jennifer Dunn should run against her.
She should have run against Patty Murray!
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