Senator Richard Shelby was one of them. So was former Democratic/Republican Senator Ben Nighthorse-Campbell. But, of course, we also had a few Republicans switch our way as well. James Jeffords of VT gave us control of the Senate for a short amount of time back in 2002 by leaving the Republican and caucusing with the Democrats as an Independent and the late Arlen Specter switched after President Obama's election for the remainder of his term- until he was primaried by Sestak in 2010. I'm actually surprised that Manchin is holding firm as a Democrat after this last election. I would have expected him to immediately switch sides, but he must not be very confident that he would survive a Republican primary in 2018 and probably is banking on having more of a chance at re-election as a Democrat (because he knows we need him for the numbers)?
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