Interesting that the Republican senate majority is more or less just the Republican/Obama seats minus the Democrat/Romney seats. The good news there is that Democrats don't necessarily need to win any Romney seats to regain the majority, just to consolidate the Obama seats which should be a lot easier.
Unfortunately not, since Democrats are a lot more open minded and prone to ticket splitting than Republicans are.
See: MD-Gov and KS-Gov
This. Democrats and liberals seem to care about other things too than just the letter next to the name of a candidate.
I think it has more to do with which party is in the White House. A number of longtime moderate Republicans lost in 2006 and 2008 (ex. Jim Leach, Chris Shays).
