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Last Updated: August 14, 2008

RankRaceIncumbentStatusLast Week
1U.S. Senate: New HampshireJohn Sununu (R)Toss up #1
2U.S. Senate: ColoradoWayne Allard (R)
OPEN SEAT		Toss up #2
3U.S. Senate: Mississippi (Special)Roger Wicker (R)Toss up #3
4U.S. Senate: Louisiana Mary Landrieu (D)Leans Democratic #4
5U.S. Senate: OregonGordon Smith (R)Leans Republican #5
6U.S. Senate: Minnesota Norm Coleman (R)Leans Republican #6
7U.S. Senate: AlaskaTed Stevens (R)Leans Democratic #7
8U.S. Senate: North CarolinaElizabeth Dole (R)Leans Republican #8
9U.S. Senate: New JerseyFrank Lautenberg (D)Likely Democratic #9
10U.S. Senate: Kentucky Mitch McConnell (R)Likely Republican #10
11U.S. Senate: New MexicoPete Domenici (R)
OPEN SEAT		Likely Democratic #11
12U.S. Senate: MaineSusan Collins (R)Likely Republican #12
13U.S. Senate: VirginiaJohn Warner (R)
OPEN SEAT		Safe Democratic #13
14U.S. Senate: NebraskaChuck Hagel (R)
OPEN SEAT		Safe Republican #14
15U.S. Senate: GeorgiaSaxby Chambliss (R)Safe Republican #15
16U.S. Senate: TennesseeLamar Alexander (R)Safe Republican #16
17U.S. Senate: TexasJohn Cornyn (R)Likely Republican #17
18U.S. Senate: IowaTom Harkin (D)Safe Democratic #18
19U.S. Senate: OklahomaJim Inhofe (R)Safe Republican #19
20U.S. Senate: Idaho Larry Craig (R)
OPEN SEAT		Safe Republican #20
21U.S. Senate: Michigan Carl Levin (D)Safe Democratic #21
22U.S. Senate: DelawareJoe Biden (D)Safe Democratic #22
23U.S. Senate: South CarolinaLindsey Graham (R)Likely Republican #23
24U.S. Senate: West VirginiaJay Rockefeller (D)Safe Democratic #24
25U.S. Senate: Illinois Dick Durbin (D)Safe Democratic #25
26U.S. Senate: KansasPat Roberts (R)Safe Republican #26
27U.S. Senate: MontanaMax Baucus (D)Safe Democratic #27
28U.S. Senate: Wyoming (Special)John Barrasso (R)Safe Republican #28
29U.S. Senate: WyomingMike Enzi (R)Safe Republican #29
30U.S. Senate: AlabamaJeff Sessions (R)Safe Republican #30
31U.S. Senate: Massachusetts John Kerry (D)Safe Democratic #31
32U.S. Senate: South DakotaTim Johnson (D)Safe Democratic #32
33U.S. Senate: Mississippi Thad Cochran (R)Safe Republican #33
34U.S. Senate: Rhode IslandJack Reed (D)Safe Democratic #34
35U.S. Senate: ArkansasMark Pryor (D)Safe Democratic #35
  • Jason Horowitz - New York Observer
    Giuliani bundler: Keynote role isn't a political calculation

    Barry Wynn, an important Rudy Giuliani supporter and former Bush campaign finance chair from South Carolina, thinks that Giuliani's selection as the Republican National Convention's keynote speaker is more the result of a close relationship with John McCain than a desire to reach out to independent voters.

  • Steve Kornacki - New York Observer
    McCain, Obama and the Caucasus test

    The satirist Ambrose Bierce memorably described war as God’s way of teaching geography. And so when Russian tanks rolled first into the disputed territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia over the weekend and then into Georgia proper, it marked the first time many Americans had heard anything at all about the people, places and politics of this particular corner of the Caucasus.

  • Joe Conason - New York Observer
    A cut-and-paste foreign policy

    The discovery that John McCain’s remarks on Georgia were derived from Wikipedia, to put it politely, is disturbing and even depressing -- but not surprising. Under the tutelage of the neoconservatives, who revealed their superficial understanding of Iraq both before and after the invasion, he favors bellicose grandstanding over strategic thinking. So why delve deeper than a quick Google search?

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