Sad thing is they could easily have taken a majority this year if they hadn’t blown so many seats and had terrible luck in almost every race in 2006 and ‘08. Nice going, American voters! Anyway, a shift of only a few thousand votes in a few states in the last 2 cycles and there would be about 45 or more GOP senators now. So Reid would have been out as majority leader one way or the other next Jan. Now it’s going to be extremely difficult to gain 10 seats. Even if they do we can count on Castle, Kirk, and maybe some others to join the “moderates” quite often.
Castle, Kirk and Fiorina would be the new RINO’s in residence joining Snowe, Collins and Brown. The good news is we would be the majority party.