7 would be awesome. Here’s my list of vulnerable Dems for 2010:
Harry Reid - Nevada
Michael Bennett - Colorado
Open Seat in Illinois
Open Seat in North Dakota
Kirsten Gillibrand - New York
Open Seat Connecticut
Arlen Specter - Pennsylvania
Open Seat Delaware
Evan Bayh - Indiana (I’ll go out on a limb and put Bayh in this column, he voted for the “stimulus” and the Senate version of health care reform)
Blanche Lincoln - Arkansas
Barbara Boxer - California (obviously she has to be favored to win again, but CA’s economy is so deep in the toilet that she cannot be considered a shoe in)
that’s 11 Dems even without MA which is a longshot but certainly plausible. The odds are against coming anywhere close to running the table, and yet I would not be surprised if Dems lost 8 of these 12.
My brother, a conservative Hoosier, tells me that an Op-Ed posted online by Bayh (Indie Star?) recently was greeted with hundreds of online comments that were 100% pure anger. He says the wrath exhibited there was beyond anything he would have expected.
This year I don’t know that any Democrat is safe, including the MA Senate seat being voted on in 2 weeks. I must say that I just can’t wait!