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Next Year's Senate Races Giving Both Parties Reason to Worry
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| Contributor | Tony82 |
| Last Edited | Tony82 Sep 15, 2003 02:19am |
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| Category | Analysis |
| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Monday, September 15, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | As Republicans and Democrats struggle to complete their lineup of candidates for next year's Senate elections, the two parties have a common set of problems: missed opportunities, bad luck and self-inflicted wounds that dim their hopes for significant gains.
In at least a half-dozen states, Republicans have failed to recruit their first choices -- and sometimes their second or third picks -- for races against potentially vulnerable Democratic incumbents. And, in Illinois, where a GOP-held seat is at stake, former governor Jim Edgar and others resisted White House pressure to run, bolstering Democratic chances for a gain...
The Democrats have also had some recruiting disappointments. But their gravest problem is the retirement -- or possible retirement -- of incumbents in the increasingly Republican South, where the GOP swept open-seat races in 2002...
The situation suggests that Republicans will keep control of the Senate, but casts doubt on whether they will expand their majority sufficiently to take commanding control of the Senate, according to several independent analysts. |
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