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 November 9, 2006
APRES '06: LE DELUGE?: It looks like losing their majority may be just the beginning of the bad news facing Senate Republicans, already bracing for an even tougher fight in 2008. This morning, Roll Call lays out the bleak landscape ahead for the GOP: In two years, the party will be trying to hold on to 21 seats, while Dems will only need to defend 12. And unfortunately for Republicans, the areas where they'll be playing defense in '08 don't include any of the biggest electoral vote battlefields. (Translation: A budget-busting campaign cycle for the GOP, without the fundraising advantages of congressional control.) As if that weren't enough to give incoming NRSC chair John Ensign an early case of the night sweats: consider that minority status may not suit many of the GOP's most secure sitting senators, from John Warner (whose replacement would need to win in increasingly purplish Virginia) to Pete Domenici and Chuck Hagel. At a minimum, it's likely at least half a dozen retirement-leaning incumbents may need to be sweet-talked into sticking around for another term. —Rebecca Sinderbrand 6:36 AM Permalink | Trackbacks | Comments (4)Comments
I'm so glad Kerry lost now. The Democrats would never have been so well poised if he had been bumbling along in the OO, alienating the electorate. I liked him, personally, but the situation now is ideal, and a Kerry win would have been very mixed. Posted by: Brian on November 9, 2006 at 9:35 AM | PERMALINKLet's not get too confident just yet. Two years ago, conservative were crowing that 2004 an enduring Republican majority was in place. Now it looks like Bush did not win the 2004 election so much as Kerry lost it. Two years from now, we might conclude that the Dems did not win control of Congress in 2006 so much as Bush (and the Iraq war) lost it. I don't mean to sound negative. The election results and Rumsfeld's resignation are very positive events for our country and needed to happen. Now comes the hard part as a lot can still happen in the next years. Posted by: msb on November 9, 2006 at 11:19 AM | PERMALINKFinally, a voice of sanity among the liberal blogs... One thing to never forget is the pendulum ALWAYS eventually swings to the other side. The GOP forgot that simple fact. Let's hope the giddy liberals on this site and others dont forget either. Posted by: Free Thinker on November 10, 2006 at 3:57 PM | PERMALINKWhat Free Thinker said. Though I hope they'll at least foret a little bit. Posted by: Brian on November 10, 2006 at 4:58 PM | PERMALINKPost a comment
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