Senate seats ("Class 2") expiring in 2008: 21R's, 12 D's.

[AlinPA]

I am sure Howard Dean is already looking at these seats.
Please would DU'ers from the states on the list (or those knowledgeable about the senators) post which seats they think would be competitive or easy wins (barring any sudden change in the next two years). I know its very early, but it might be fun to start thinking early on good candidates to go after the larger number of R's and to defend the D's.

REPUBLICANS
Stevens AK
Sessions AL
Allard CO
Chambliss GA
Roberts KS
Domenici NM
Inhofe OK
Smith OR
Graham SC
McConnell KY
Enzi WY
Craig ID
Alexander TN
Sununu NH
Coleman MN
Cochran MS
Dole NC
Cornyn TX
Collins ME
Hagel NE
Warner VA


DEMOCRATS
Biden DE
Harkin IA
Durbin IL
Landrieu LA
Kerry MA
Levin MI
Baucus MT
Pryor AR
Lautenberg NJ
Reed RI
Johnson SD
Rockefeller WV

[efhmc]

1. Wish I could say Texas is conpetitive but we are not unless we

could get a Richards or Jordan type candidate. We are already talking about the work we need to do.

[mike_c]

2. this is yet another reason for aggressive investigations and oversight....

Many of those republicans will be vulnerable if the mood of the country is that the republican party-- identified with the republican neocon administration-- is complicit in Bushco's crimes.

[bleedinglib]

3. Vulnerable Seats ?

The Dems on your list seem reasonably safe?

There are four Pubs that I think we can take out?

Inhofe--OK

Smith-- OR

Sununu--NH

Coleman--MN

blib

:rofl:

[AlinPA]

6. I don't have a lot of information, but have an idea that NJ (Lautenberg),

SD (Johnson), LA (Landreiu) and Pryor (AR) might be tough for us. I hope I am wrong on these.

On the R's, I see CO (Allard), ME (Collins), MN (Coleman), NM (Domenici), TN (Alexander), OR (Smith), NH (Sununu)

I don't have any candidates to put up, I'm probably just using gut feel about the mood of voters.

[election_2004]

18. Suggestions for those races

CO - Mark Udall (already announced he's running against Allard)
ME - Hannah Pingree
MN - Becky Lourey
NM - Patricia Madrid (if Domenici retires, and Heather Wilson runs too)
TN - Rosalind Kurita
OR - Jim Hunt, Greg MacPherson, or Vicki Walker
NH - John Lynch (assuming he's willing to give up Gov)

[RobertDevereaux]

4. Let's give Allard the boot!

Wayne Allard in Colorado should be an easy target.

Only Musgrave trumps him (oops, and Tancredo) as an embarrassment to this state.

He's one of the worst senators there are. Go after him!

[wellstone dem]

5. It was clear before the election that 2008 was our best

shot at taking the Senate because of the number of Republicans that have to run. That we won this year is terrific, we can pick up more in 2008.

[More Than A Feeling]

7. If Kerry retires, Rep. Marty Meehan does NOT deserve the seat

He's sitting on a huge warchest but wouldn't give any extra of it away to help our challengers when other congresspersons were.

[TayTay]

8. Marty would run, as would Rep Stephen Lynch

If it came down to the two of them, who would you vote for?

(I like Martha Coakley. It's time to put a woman into Congress from this state.)

[More Than A Feeling]

17. *wince* If I had the vote, which I don't, I wouldn't want either

http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Stephen_Lynch

Coakley looks good, except that she was just elected attorney general. Would (primary) voters have a problem with her immediately moving on to the senate?

[sallyseven]

9. Kerry will retire over my dead body. Marty Meehan

is a jerk and I think the dems in Mass should find another Dem to chase him outa there.

[Warpy]

10. The old fossil Domenici has announced he's retiring

at the end of this term. I hope the door does smack him in the ass on the way out, he deserves it.

I have no idea who will run for his seat, haven't heard a whisper, but I hope Wilson (R-COW) does a Harris and gets her bony butt shellacked.

[phiddle]

12. My hope is that Bill Richardson will run for this seat.

He'd shellack Wilson. Sadly, I think that he's going to run (and lose) for president.

[election_2004]

19. We could see another Wilson/Madrid rematch

This time with Madrid coming out on top.

[Kber]

11. Lautenburg will probably retire in 2008

[greeneggs708]

13. Who Says Dems Have No Plan

We are already running for 2008.

Maybe if we could actually do something it would help.

I know, radical idea. I must be a clone of Carville.

We are Democrats, we are going to spend two years running for 2008.

That is our plan America. Hope you like it.

[newyawker99]

16. Hi greeneggs708!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[kestrel91316]

14. It would be nice to give Inhofe the boot, but being as he's from

OK I don't know if he's at all vulnerable.

[election_2004]

20. Coburn can possibly be defeated in 2010

When Attorney General Drew Edmondson finishes up his term as AG.

[Thrill]

15. Are you sure Kerry is up?

Didn't he just win re-election in 04?

[election_2004]

21. No, he was reelected to the Senate in 2002