re: #28 lawhawk

Only if he dropped out before running for reelection in 2010. The seat isn’t up again until 2016. Frankly, I don’t think there was much of a chance of a Democrat winning the seat in a general election.

Maybe not…but there will be two primaries in 2014 now - one for Demint’s seat and one for Lindsey Graham’s (though he probably hopes the teabaggers focus on the open seat and tear each other apart there). But given two seats in the same election, it would provide an opportunity for Democrats to focus on one of them and stand a chance of gaining one.