2014's Most Boring Senate Race

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

Safe seats based on Sabato's ratings. No specials included.

BONUS: Chose two options because there are just so many entrenched incumbents running pointless campaigns this year!!

[IceSpear]

Considering Jeff Sessions in Alabama is running unopposed, I'm not sure how that isn't unambiguously the most boring race.

[LeBron]

I voted Illinois and New Jersey just because they're safe Democratic seats and there's nothing interesting at all on the GOP or Dem side. Now if Rush Holt had decided to primary challenge Booker, that would be a whole another story.

As for the others, I'll be interested to see if Sessions get any 3rd party challenger in Alabama. DE will also be interesting to see for obvious reasons on whether you know who runs. ID might actually be slightly interesting b/c although Mitchell will get butchered, Risch if fairly unpopular so it will be interesting to see just how much he wins by. KS will be heavily important to watch in the primary to see if Wolf can primary Roberts; otherwise boring. ME will be pretty boring besides a blowout win for the best Republican in the Senate. MA is probably 3rd in most boring (Weld isn't running). MN, at best, the primary might be a little interesting. Nebraska I'm interested in solely because neither Sasse nor Domina aren't that bad of candidates. NM will be interesting in the primary to see if Weh can win this time around or Clements, the Rand Paul plagiarist, will face Udall. OK (Inhofe) will be pretty boring (though I think Erick Wyatt who ran against Cornyn is also running to primary Inhofe), but given how liberal State Sen. Johnson is will be interesting to see if she can perform better than Rogers '10. RI will be fun to see by what margin the GOP nominee gets blown away by. SC (Graham)'s only interest is the primary and Scott/Dickerson will be interesting on account of a black Republican v. a black Democrat race. Tennessee, the primary will be interesting on both sides (Alexander/Carr and Adams/Ball). Texas will be fairly boring now assuming Alameel gets the Dem nomination and Wyoming became dull the moment Cheney dropped out.

[ElectionsGuy]

Sessions literally doesn't have a candidate and Jack Reed will landslide.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Alabama, since Sessions appears to be unopposed.

[SWE]

Alabama and Delaware both only have one candidate

[MATTROSE94]

Easily Alabama, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Delaware. The Senate race in Tennessee would only be interesting if Joe Carr defeats Lamar Alexander in the primary, which doesn't seem that likely at this point.

[Maxwell]

Oklahoma has a pretty fascinating primary race, and the Potential Democratic nominee is far more liberal than most past Democratic nominees, so it will be interesting to see what she does.

Alabama and Idaho are boring as hell.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

MN is rated Likely D by Sabato, not Safe D. If 2014 turns into another 2010, Franken will find himself in a tough race (He'll probably still win, but the margin will be around that of the 2010 WA Senate race or perhaps a tidge narrower.) . OR and VA are at roughly the same level of competitiveness.

As for the others, Illinois will be one to cast a glance at: If 5% of the vote is in and the race is still not called, it probably means that Quinn is going to lose the Governor's Race. If it is called before then, the Governor's Race will remain capable of going either way.

Maine may be one to look at as well, just to see if Susan Collins can win even bigger than she did in 2008, and the margin in Texas may indicate whether it is starting to become more like 2012's Georgia than like 2012's Louisiana.

AL, DE, NJ, and ID are very boring.

MA, NE, RI, NM, and WY are boring as well.

The primaries in KS, OK, TN, SC, and MS are worth your time, but the GE will be boring.

Overall, AL and WY are probably the most boring, but DE, NJ, ID, MA, NE, RI, and NM are only a tidge more interesting.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Dan Hynes could have forced Durbin into early retirement and forced the GOP to spend resources in coming up with a suitable alternative. Instead we got another boring IL Senate race.