2011-12 Election Cycle
In 2012, 23 Democratic Senate seats will be up for grabs, as opposed to 10 Republican seats. A pick-up of four seats could give the GOP a Senate majority.
DSCC executive director says their strategy will be to “localize” elections – make them “a choice between the two people on the ballot...and not simply allow it to be a nationalized election.” Because this is not easy to do in a presidential election year, the DSCC has gone very much on the offensive, depicting Republican candidates and donors, and especially the Tea Party, as extreme. During the Florida and Indiana primaries, they are pushing that the Tea Party is working to move the GOP "so far to the right that candidates will say anything to get their party's nomination." The GOP is targeting four red states to pick up the seats they need for a Senate majority. They are looking at states that didn't swing for President Obama in 2008: Missouri, Montana, Nebraska and North Dakota.
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