2006 is going to be a prime year for us to really shape up the Senate.
We have shots to replace Chafee and Snowe with real conservatives. Jeffords' seat is open, we have a good shot of taking that back. There's talk that Conrad's seat is vunerable. For the hell of it, we can have fun trying to derail Hillary and Teddy's reelection campaigns.
Corzine is running for NJ governor, and his term is up for the '06 election cycle, so he won't be a contender for reelection. My state is definitely leaning more conservative lately, I think because of the disgust over McGreevey. Taking Corzine's seat is a possibility.
Thanks for the list---I was hoping that NJ would go to Bush this year, especially because he had a pretty good rally there.
There are some good ones ripe for forced retirement, unfortunately, McCain was just re-elected. Did you hear him say that he is going to consider a presidential race in about 2 years? Ugh---I can't understand why any border state Senator would be soooo against immigration reform unless he is getting something from it.
As far a Bush goes, I know his nephew is hispanic so it may be more than just business for him. I truly think he has an affinity for hispanics. He has always named a lot to his staffs here in Texas and now Wash. I guess for that reason I am not quite as "mean" about his reluctance to put in an airtight border in the south.
We know that the US does Billions of dollars worth of business with Canada (not to mention getting oil from them) so he isn't going to rock that boat, so how could he be hard core on immigration. Not excusing him necessarily, but just food for thought!!