By Neil the Ethical Werewolf
It's a happy day to look back at John Judis' piece on Democratic Senate prospects for 2008. With John Warner having decided to resign from the Senate, Mark Warner is in position to give Virginia a second Democratic Senator. And it looks like Chuck Hagel will be retiring in Nebraska, paving the way for the locally beloved Bob Kerrey to return to the Senate. (Nebraska votes solidly Republican on the presidential level, but it's actually quite good to Democrats in the Senate -- Hagel is the only Republican to win a Nebraska Senate race in the last 35 years.) Along with Colorado and New Hampshire, this makes 4 seats in which we'll be favored to win. A 60-seat Senate majority by 2011, while still unlikely, is not out of reach.
