# Senate race 2014

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-race-2014/640225>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 7, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-race-2014/640225 "2012-11-07T15:34:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-race-2014/640225/21 "2012-11-09T17:03:58Z")

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> [@RTFirefly](#):
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> Just looking at the GOP-held seats in the 2014 Senate class, you can pretty much tell the Dems are going to lose ground in the Senate in 2014, because their best hope for a pickup is if Collins retires in Maine.
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> The other 12 GOP-held seats are in: KY, TN, SC, GA, AL, MS, TX, OK, KS, NE, WY, ID. Very unfriendly territory for the Dems, all the way down the line. The Dems didn’t leave anything on the table when they had their banner year in 2008.
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> So the good news about last night is that the Dems have a buffer that, barring a really bad year, should enable them to hold onto the Senate in 2014, despite the near inevitability that they will lose a few seats.

All those states sound like places where a tea party challenger could Mourdock the election for the Republicans.

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