Slate for 2008

Woah -- already posting about 2008? Yep. I just want to lay it out who we are up against in '08 and who's seat we have to defend. We only have two years and a presidential campaign taking control of the media this election. As you can see the NRSC will have almost twice the amount of seats to defend.

Here they are:

REPUBLICANS

AL: Jeff Sessions
AK: Ted Stevens**
CO: Wayne Allard**
GA: Saxby Champbliss
ID: Larry Craig
KS: Pat Roberts**
KY: Mitch McConnell
ME: Susan Collins** (self-imposed term-limit)
MN: Norm Coleman
MS: Thad Cochran**
NE: Chuck Hagel**
NH: John Sununu
NM: Pete Domenici**
NC: Elizabeth Dole**
OK: Jim Inhofe**
OR: Gordon Smith
SC: Lindsay Graham
TN: Lamar Alexander
TX: John Cornyn
VA: John Warner**
WY: Michael Enzi

21 Seats

DEMOCRATS

AR: Mark Pryor
DE: Joe Biden** (running for president)
IL: Richard Durbin
IA: Tom Harkin
LA: Mary Landrieu
MA: John Kerry** (may run for president)
MI: Carl Levin**
MT: Max Baucus
NJ: Frank Lautenberg**
RI: John Reed
SD: Tim Johnson
WV: Jay Rockefeller**

12 Seats

** Rumors have circulated about possible retirements (more on this later)
NOTE: There is no way we will go into this election with fifteen open-seats as a result of retirement. So most of these 'rumors' are just that, rumors.