Senate Democrats are building a stellar 2016 recruiting class

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Senate Democrats are building a stellar 2016 recruiting class

By Chris Cillizza, The Fix at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/06/04/senate-democrats-are-building-a-stellar-2016-recruiting-class/?postshare=2271433440629106

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The party has recruited top-tier candidates in each of the four most competitive seats up next November and have another four solid candidates in Republican-held seats that could help them expand the national playing field as they try to retake the Senate after two years in the minority. In most of these states -- though not all -- the preferred Democratic nominee has no serious primary challenge or even the prospect of one looming.

Consider:

* In Nevada, former state attorney general Catherine Cortez-Masto, the preferred candidate of retiring Sen. Harry Reid, is in the race and Rep. Dina Titus isn't.

* In Florida, Rep. Patrick Murphy, a young, aggressive candidate and prolific fundraiser, is running. (The prospect of Rep. Alan Grayson primarying Murphy complicates this recruitment win for Democrats.)

* In Illinois, Rep. Tammy Duckworth, a wounded Iraq war vet, is in. Rep. Bill Foster is out.



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[Dawson Leery]

1. k/r

[Gothmog]

2. This is great news-We need to retake control of the Senate in 2016