Friday Senate Line: Democratic Domination (WaPo) - Dem pickup of seven or eight seats likely.

[jefferson_dem]

Friday Senate Line: Democratic Domination

The National Republican Senatorial Committee's decision to pull down its advertising in Louisiana effectively ensures that Senate GOPers will be playing only defense between today and Election Day.
Friday Line

As a result, we have updated our Friday Senate Line to reflect the current state of affairs; all ten seats listed below are held by Republicans and, in each, there is a real chance that Democrats could score a pickup.

If Democrats swept every seat on the Line, they would stand at 61 seats in the Senate -- clear of the holy grail of a 60-seat filibuster-proof majority that means real governing control of the world's greatest deliberative body.

Possible? Absolutely. Probable? Not yet.

To our eye, the most likely scenario is a Democratic pickup of either seven or eight seats -- a result that would put them within a scintilla of 60 seats with another favorable cycle (by the numbers) coming up in 2010.

As always, the number one ranked race is the most likely to switch party control in November. Agree or disagree with our picks? The comments section awaits.

(We'll post a House Line this afternoon -- double dose! -- so be sure to check back later today.)

To the Line!

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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/10/senate_line.html

[depakid]

1. Five Thirty Eight currently has the odds of reaching 60 at 3 chances in 10

I can't understand why otherwise sensible folks in Maine keep sending Republicans to Washington, knowing that when push comes to shove, they vote lockstep in barrel with the lunatic right.