Posted on 11/10/2009 1:08:07 PM PST by mtnwmn
After struggling for two consecutive cycles on the Senate battlefield, Republicans seem poised to make a comeback in 2010. With 37 seats up for grabs — and Democrats defending 19 of them — the GOP is flexing its muscles in Democratic-leaning states like Delaware, Connecticut and Illinois. Recruiting coups by National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn of Texas are one big reason Republicans feel a new sense of confidence. Democrats, meanwhile, are taking on an increasingly defensive crouch as the party in power, which must defend President Barack Obama’s ambitious — and expensive — agenda.
Without further ado, here is POLITICO’s list of the 10 best pickup opportunities among next year’s Senate contests.
Delaware
Republicans turned Delaware into their top pickup target when they nabbed Rep. Mike Castle, the state’s nine-term moderate congressman, to run for the open seat. Delaware remains a deeply Democratic state, with Vice President Joe Biden — the former occupant of the seat in question — as the state’s political godfather. But Democrats and Republicans agree that Castle is the only Republican in the state who could make this a real race. Now all eyes are on Biden’s son, Democratic Attorney General Beau Biden, who is said to be leaning toward a run.
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The Republicans have recruited a group of candidates who have one thing in common, namely the ability to win. Mike Castle, Rob Simmons, and Mark Kirk are running in deep blue states (DE, CT, and IL) and represent excellent takeover opportunities. With numerous retirements facing the GOP, they landed Kelly Ayotte, Roy Blunt, Rob Portman, Charlie Crist, and Trey Grayson to try to keep seats in Republican hands. Another huge race will be in Pennsylvania between Arlen Specter, Joe Sestak, and Pat Toomey. Other potential takeover opportunities lie in Nevada, Colorado, and possibly North Dakota.
Every Dem up for election in 2010 should know that most of them will be getting a pink slip! A vote for Healthcare is a vote for your own pink slip!
A agree with you and I think in this district we will be saying good bye to our Dem Congresss critter that replaced Nye and replacing him with whoever runs in the R column. Strickland will not be getting many votes from here this time!
Strickland is a Dem? How has he cost the GOP anything?
I’d like to see WI Sen. Feingold on the list but he’ll be well financed and there’s no viable Republican running.
Brunner is as corrupt and as slimy a political hack as there is. Her efforts to deliver Ohio to Obama in 2008 were straight out of a banana republic playbook (and I ain't talkin' about the clothing store).
Mark my words, Crist will drop his campaign well before the primaries. Marco Rubio is chewing him apart and not leaving much to spit out.
Byron Dorgan ND
Max Baucus ND
Kristen Gillibrand NY
Blanche Lincoln AR
Harry Reid NV
I don’t understand why some red states manage to put Rats in the senate (ND, AR, MT, IN)
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JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO Free people enjoy the right to use nullification as a protective measure ... to have their state legislatures act to prevent federal domination.
A legacy of USSC Taney's Dred Scott judicial activism, was that this ruling would lay the groundwork for the rights of states to nullify----To make null; to invalidate; To counteract the force or effectiveness of unconstitutional laws: Nullification in U.S. history, is a doctrine expounded by the advocates of states' rights. It held that states have the right to declare null and void any federal law that they deem unconstitutional.
Nullification is also a fundamental state right to prevent federal domination.
States enjoyed the right to use nullification as a protective measure against unconstitutional federal laws by making them ineffective against their citizens. For example Montana nullified federal gun laws.
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE After Dred Scott, nullification had become a states' right tradition, and both the North and the South exercised it prior to 1861
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