Democrat's contol of Senate grows more difficult now

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-26/democratic-senate-control-harder-with-7-romney-state-bids.html

What?

No "Election 2014" forum yet?  It's getting that time.

Anyway, I hope to God there's no screw-up this time, in gaining control of the Senate, especially since in 2016 the Democrats will be the advantaged ones.  We should've gotten it in 2012, and one hopes those sorts of problems are resolved before November 2014.

Democratic Senate Control Harder With 7 Romney-State Bids

U.S. Senator Tim Johnson’s announcement that he’ll retire after the 2014 election just made the Democrats’ job of holding their Senate majority a lot tougher.

Johnson, 66, the Senate banking committee chairman, is the second Democrat from a state won by Republican nominee Mitt Romney last year to say he won’t seek re-election in 2014. The announcement today means his party must defend two open seats and support five other Democratic incumbents running for re- election in Republican-leaning states.....

.....In all, 21 Senate Democrats are running for re-election next year, compared with 14 Republicans. Only one Republican incumbent -- three-term Senator Susan Collins of Maine -- is seeking re-election in a state Romney lost. And, so far, Republicans must defend just two open seats, in Georgia and Nebraska, both of which Romney carried......

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Senator Tim Johnson, a democrat in the prime of his political life, has decided to retire.  Not "die in office" -- "retire".  Something must be up.  This almost never happens in real life.