And this is why Republicans lost Senate races in Colorado, Nevada, Indiana, Missouri, and Delaware.
To reiterate, the Senate could be 50-50 right now, with a Republican majority a certainty in January of next year.
Implying that Sue Lowden and Jane Norton were better candidates, or that Todd Akin didn't squeek by in a three-way primary against two tea-party opponents...
Besides, shouldn't the Senate already be 50-50, given that Republicans had such stellar recruits as George Allen, Tommy Thompson, Denny Rehberg, Rick Berg, and Scott Brown running in contested races last cycle?
Rehberg and Berg weren't stellar candidates, and they lost as a result. But Republicans probably should have won those races anyway and didn't pull it off.