SENATORS UP FOR REELECTION
IN 2012 – from Wikipedia we have the party breakdown of those whose terms are
expiring in 2012. This should be fun, as most are Dems!  We have an early preview of those up for review and time to discuss which ones need to be sent back to the private sector. More importantly, we need to find out who will be primarying or running
against them.
4.1 Democrats/Independents retiring (6 seats)

• 4.1.1 Joe Lieberman of Connecticut
• 4.1.2 Daniel Akaka of Hawaii
• 4.1.3 Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico
• 4.1.4 Kent Conrad of North Dakota
• 4.1.5 Jim Webb of Virginia
• 4.1.6 Herb Kohl of Wisconsin
• 4.2 Democrats/Independents seeking re-election
  (17 seats)
• 4.2.1 Dianne Feinstein of California
• 4.2.2 Tom Carper of Delaware
• 4.2.3 Bill Nelson of Florida
• 4.2.4 Ben Cardin of Maryland
• 4.2.5 Debbie Stabenow of Michigan
• 4.2.6 Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota
• 4.2.7 Claire McCaskill of Missouri
• 4.2.8 Jon Tester of Montana
• 4.2.9 Ben Nelson of Nebraska
• 4.2.10 Bob Menendez of New Jersey
• 4.2.11 Kirsten Gillibrand of New York
• 4.2.12 Sherrod Brown of Ohio
• 4.2.13 Bob Casey, Jr. of Pennsylvania
• 4.2.14 Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island
• 4.2.15 Bernie Sanders of Vermont
• 4.2.16 Maria Cantwell of Washington
• 4.2.17 Joe Manchin of West Virginia
• 4.3 Republicans retiring (2 seats)
• 4.3.1 Jon Kyl of Arizona
• 4.3.2 Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas
• 4.4 Republicans seeking re-election (8 seats)
• 4.4.1 Richard Lugar of Indiana
• 4.4.2 Olympia Snowe of Maine
• 4.4.3 Scott Brown of Massachusetts
• 4.4.4 Roger Wicker of Mississippi
• 4.4.5 Dean Heller of Nevada
• 4.4.6 Bob Corker of Tennessee
• 4.4.7 Orrin Hatch of Utah
• 4.4.8 John Barrasso of Wyoming

Kay Bailey Hutchison (R – TX) will be retiring at the end of her term and running for her seat is a young man by the name of Ted Cruz, who is the former Solicitor General of Texas.  Don’t know much about him yet, but he’s well thought of in our neck of the woods.  Read more about him here.
http://www.tedcruz.org/bio/
2010 was merely Round One, Treepers – we must start preparations for Round Two.  There will be mistakes – we’re finding that out already and odds are there will be again.  And remember Alinsky’s Rule #13 for radicals – identify, isolate, freeze and escalate (in a nutshell….that nut’s hard to read.)