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Battle for the Senate: Outlook for the Republicans in 2010 12-09-08

CQ Politics
CQ Politics Staff

The Republicans’ disastrous 2008 national Senate campaign isn’t quite over, as there is no decision yet in the Minnesota cliffhanger race between GOP Sen. Norm Coleman and Democratic entertainer Al Franken.

But GOP officials will have little time to tend their wounds before gearing up for the 2010 elections, as they seek to reverse some of the damage from a 2006 campaign that saw them lose six seats and their Senate majority, and the elections this year in which they lost at least seven more seats, pending the outcome in that Minnesota race.

Battle for the Senate: Outlook for the Democrats in 2010 12-09-08

CQ Politics
By CQ Politics staff

As the Democrats prepare to defend their newly robust Senate majority in the 2010 elections, it would be an understatement to say that New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez has a tough act to follow as the new chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC).

Charles E. Schumer , who is up for a third term in New York in the upcoming elections, headed the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm during a 2006 campaign that produced a six-seat gain and a narrow majority for the party, and a 2008 campaign that expanded the party’s edge by a whopping gain of at least seven seats, with the cliffhanger Minnesota contest between Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and Democratic entertainer Al Franken still undecided.

Thinking ahead on electoral reform 11-24-08

The Boston Globe
Jim Grimes

WHATEVER side you were on in the presidential election, there is one thing everyone can agree on.
Barack Obama won.
This time no one is talking about butterfly ballots in Florida or skullduggery in Ohio. We chose a president without the intervention of the courts. The system worked.
But what about next time?

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