And what on earth would their incentive be to leave the majority party to join the minority?
Check the map, these are blue state senators.
Adulation of the press.
Adulation of their peers.
Threat of a primary opponent.
I hope I'm wrong and uninformed?
Adulation of the press.Nah, the press wouldn't care as long as the power of the senate won't switchAdulation of their peers.
Have you seen Jeffords lately?
Threat of a primary opponent.
Why would we do that? They don't have to worry about that until we have 60 seats in the senate
Their constituancy doesn't care if they are D or R as long as they have some influence. As a memeber of the minority party, they have NO influence.