While they have the potential to be there, I believe the GOP is defending 22 seat including some open seats versus 12 donkies, we can hang our energy predicament on the donkeys. We have had a no drilling on the continental shelves, no new oil refineries, no new atomic energy plants and all of the above for the last 30 years, no wind farms off Martha's Vineyard, etc. all thanks to the donkeys. The public now wants to drill. The GOP has to be dumber than a box of rocks to blow it.
Then they very well may blow it. They allowed the primaries to be jiggered around so that McCain ended up as the "presumptive nominee" before such important states as Texas even voted.