The Senate seats which are up in 2006 (17 Ds & 14 Rs):

[AP]

DEMOCRATS (17):
CA: Feinstein
CT: Lieberman
DE: Carper
FL: Nelson
Hawaii: Akaka
Maryland: Sarbanes
Mass: Kennedy
Mich: Stabenow
Minn: Dayton
Neb: Nelson
NJ: Corzine
NM: Bingaman
NY: Clinton
North Dakota: Conrad
Wash: Cantwell
WV: Byrd
WI: Kohl

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REPUBLICANS (14)
IN: Lugar
Maine: Snowe
Mississipi: Lott
Missouri: Talent
Mont: Burns
Nevada: Ensign
Ohio: DeWine
PA: Santorum
RI: Chafee
TN: Frist
TX: Hutchison
Utah: Hatch
VA: Allen
Wyoming: Thomas

[rockymountaindem]

1. The only possible pickups I see there are MO, OH, PA and VA.

Not too good.

[happyiowan]

4. Very good if we play it right

We need to take a page from the r's book and target symbolic seats. I say Frist. I say we garner our resources and go after the cat killer.

[truhavoc]

6. Our problem is not viewing every seat as a possible pickup!

No not cede an inch to these cowards! $1 spent in TX is a dollar not spent in OH!!!

[AP]

7. Dems should push Chafee to switch.

[catbert836]

25. We won't have to

what * accomplishes in the next 4 years will push him into the Democraric party.

[seraph]

33. The danger is losing Linc to a *real republican. (nt)

[RogueTrooper]

39. only if the repubs turf him out

as chair of the judiciary committee. He may be our only hope when it comes to stopping Bush's more odious supreme nominations.

[goobergunch]

20. Don't forget the Tennessee open seat

Assuming Frist retires as he said he would, we should have an excellent chance to pick up that race.

[West Coast Democrat]

26. Al Gore!!

[GRLMGC]

21. yeah!

get rid of Santorum!

[seraph]

32. We have a shot in RI.

[Eagle_Eye]

2. I wonder

I wonder if Hillary Clinton will run for re-election or just go full time to campain for president?

[AP]

5. I guarantee you HRC will NOT run for president. It's red meat for wingers.

And that's about all it is.

[truhavoc]

8. However I think that women would show up in droves for her

And it depends who she has to face on the repug side. Guiliani would be an easy win for her.

[AP]

11. Uh uh. She's the kind of woman suburban women have a hard time liking.

Debbie Stabenow is the kind of woman for whom women would come out in droves.

[Eagle_Eye]

23. She would be a great candidate

The repuglicans fear her because she can win. They attack her at every turn to discourage her running.

[truhavoc]

3. Let's start now, we need the Senate!

I think we should take it to the repugs on their own turf, make them play defense and walk away with our states! I will make it my mission to help defeat DeWine in OH, does anyone think we have anyone better than Fingerhunt to run against him? Possibly Springer?

[AP]

9. Bush's polarization of America should be the energy Dems harness to win

some of those seats, such as in OH & ME.

[waldnorm]

10. Kay Baley Hutchison . . .

will likely run for Governor that year. An open seat in Texas may be tough, but there's now some good Democratic Representatives ousted by Delay's redistricting.

If he runs, Trent Lott MUST be targeted.

[AP]

12. I don't see a Dem winning in TX while Bush is president.

[crispini]

16. Oooooee. Anyone think Ann Richards might give it a go? n/t

[regnaD kciN]

36. No...as I understand...

...her health isn't good enough anymore.

:-(

[sbj405]

13. We need to identify viable candidates now!

Not sure whether Sarbanes will run again. Pipkin would of course love to run again. MD will have a gubernatorial election as well. It'll be a fight as we try to rid ourselves of Erlich the rethug. So I would expect decent turnouts on both sides.

[groton]

14. Liberman probaly wont run again.

CT has a Gov Election in 2006 aswell.

so We probaly have someone good to run for both CT's gov seat and the sen seat instead of Liberman.


Snowe and Chafee Both should not be targeted but Helped
both vote alot more democratic then repuke anyways and Chafee with face a challenge from his right.

[The Magistrate]

17. Nonesense, Sir

Anything with Republican allegiance that can be trounced must be trounced: the northeastern and middle-western Republican in national office must be made extinct as the southern Democrat; those who will not switch parties must be driven from office. There is no other choice. It is the conservatives who offend, but it is the moderates who must pay.

"America looked into the abyss, and fifty-one percent said: 'Hmmm...I wonder what's down there....'"

[Hippo_Tron]

30. I'm gonna agree with you on Snowe but not Chafee...

Chafee is more liberal than most democrats. Plus he has mentioned the possibility of switching anyway.

[txdude10]

15. The Senate is important...

but we shouldn't forget one state-level political office that has screwed up Democratic Party's chances in the last two national election: secretaries of state. Looking back, it seems that a key part of the Republican strategy in their match toward total political domination of this country has been to have their people in control of the ballot process. Wasn't it Stalin who said that it is not who votes that counts but who counts the votes? I'll be interested to know the party identification of the secretaries of state in those key states that Bush won or Kerry almost lost.

[Chili]

35. YES

I used to ignore the gubernatorial races, not interested, not at all. WRONG ANSWER! In terms of national elections, having a Democratic governor in swing states is CRITICAL. Critical, can't say it enough times - we've learned our lesson. Had Ohio been under a Democratic governor and Secretary of State, John Kerry would be president today and forming his cabinet right this moment.

I understand that Blackwell intends to run for governor. I CAN'T WAIT. I will dedicate my life to making sure HE IS DEFEATED. If he weren't so needed in the House, I'd say to Dennis Kucinich: RUN, DENNIS, RUN!

[pstokely]

18. let's start fundraising now

nt

[Richardson08]

19. Corzine will probably run for governor of NJ

[Hippo_Tron]

31. Corzine needs to stay in the senate...

He's one of the leading progressives.

[noonwitch]

22. I think Stabenow is at risk

We need to start looking at that-she won by a very small margin in 2000.

[pstokely]

24. how do we GOTV in 2006?

?

[arcos]

27. kick!

[pstokely]

28. most of those Dems are in Blue States

we might have chances in TN, VA, MO, NV, OH

[deadparrot]

29. We don't know what's going to be going on in two years....

although I'm looking forward to putting Talent away in my first elections. :)

[keyzersoze13]

34. My Two Cents

We need to target Pennsylvania and get Santorum out. That's job one. Next we should aim for pick-ups in Ohio, Missouri, Nevada, and Maine. Finally, we need to focus on switching Chafee to our side. We may not take all of these, but if we can make our goal to hang onto what we have, and pick up two or three seats, then we can position ourselves well for 2008. We shouldn't be afraid to target swing/red states, since there won't be a Presidential election this time. That's just my two cents.

[rlev1223]

37. Safe/ not safe?

I don't know which is which.

(CA--If Feinstein runs, she is a shoe-in, as Boxer was this year.)

I would dearly love to see Santorum booted, even by a strong repub primary challenger -- it would be nice to see the supposed repub civil war. Any PA people know if Beastial Dick is weak?

[arcos]

38. kick! n/t