Senate race 2014

[Damuri_Ajashi]

@RTFirefly

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.

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.

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.