Posted on 11/06/2004 6:49:07 AM PST by An American!
33 Senators running for reelection in 2006. There will be 18 democrats, 14 republicans and 1 independent up for reelection:
Democrats in order of likelihood of being defeated
Byrd, Robert (D) West Virginia
Feinstein, Diane (D) California
Kennedy, Edward (D) Massachusetts
Bingaman, Jeff (D) New Mexico
Nelson, Bill (D)Florida
Vulnerable
Clinton, Hillary (D) New York
Dayton, Mark (D) Minnesota
Kohl, Herb (D) Wisconsin
Stabenow, Debbie (D) Michigan
Jeffords, Jim (I) Vermont
Somewhat Vulnerable
Cantwell, Maria (D) Washington
Corzine, Jon (D) New Jersey
Conrad, Kent (D) North Dakota
Nelson, Ben (D) Nebraska
Sarbanes, Paul (D) Maryland
Carper, Thomas (D) Delaware
Safe & Sound
Akaka, Daniel (D) Hawaii
Carper, Thomas (D) Delaware
Lieberman, Joe (D) Connecticut
Republicans in order of likelihood of being defeated
Hutchison, Kay Baily (R) Texas
Frist, William (R) Tennessee
Lugar, Richard (R) Indiana
Lott, Trent (R) Mississippi
Hatch, Orrin (R) Utah
Vulnerable
Allen, George (R) Virginia
DeWine, Mike (R) Ohio
Snowe, Olympia (R) Maine
Somewhat Vulnerable
Burns, Conrad (R) Montana
Chafee, Lincoln (R) Rhode Island
Santorum, Rick (R) Pennsylvania
Safe & Sound
Ensign, John (R) Nevada
Kyl, Jon (R) Arizona
Thomas, Craig (R) Wyoming
LOL Byrd, Feinstein and Kennedy before Nelson? Whoever created this list is on crack.
George Allen vulnerable? More crack predictions.
Absolutely true! It all depends on how much success the President will have in the tax and medicare issues. This will be a huge factor in picking up more Republican seats. I think the tax issue is huge.
I'd love to see Byrd, Clinton and especially Kennedy be defeated and republicans in their place.
wow, they're going to be looking over their shoulders. LOL. Can someone do a count on how close any of those states were?
It's all about putting up STRONG CANDIDATES - especially in democratic states. We should be able to win seats in FL, NM and ND, but trying to wrest Ted Kennedy out of Liberal MA would take a CURT SHILLING! And that whole Northeast Region always goes democrat, so we need a big name republican in those states to have ANY hope...California needs a big name pubbie to unseat Feinstein (they blew it this year when they could have taken on Boxer, but no they picked that loser Jones!)
Kennedy will be dead by 2008.
Kay Baily-Hutchison is not losing her seat.
Frist isn't running again I heard. Orin and Ted will probably retire, also why wouldn't Frist and Hutchinson be re-elected.
I don't agree that Herb Kohl is vulnerable...more like safe and sound...unfortunately.
*Translation: Robert Byrd and Ted Kennedy
I'm not believing that list. (Who came up with that anyway?) Example...I'm in FL and I highly doubt that Nelson is in any trouble. He even gets rep votes here.
Either Edward Kennedy will retire or not, I think that it's quite impossible to gain this seat in MA. For another reason Bill Nelson, in Florida, will be strong because Floridians (not me!) might prefer to split the Senate representants and probably he will not retire. More in general, could you explain us what kind of rule you have used for this ranking? Remember that one thing is the Presidential Election, another is the vote for our Representants or Senators. Thanks.
Alessandro
P.S. We must find good candidates, put forward other Keyes, Specter...
FAIR TAX
What have you been smoking? Unless they majorly screw up, their senate seats can be considered epoxied to their butts. Consider, please, the populace that repeatedly have elected them.
Arnie TERMINATES Feinswein in '06
Errata corrige: "... avoiding to put forward..."
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