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The New DU. Reply #5: Breaking even in the Senate (50-50) would be a 9 seat gain for them.
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Sun May-09-10 06:03 AM
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| 5. Breaking even in the Senate (50-50) would be a 9 seat gain for them. |
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Bob Bennett lost because of the strange way Utah nomintaes its candidates. Their caucus system gives huge weight to a few party activists, who are always much more ideological than the general primary electorate. If Bennett could have made it to the primary, he would have easily won.
The Crist/Rubio fight is a better example (though in that case Crist is no longer very popular and neither is an incumbent Senator).
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