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Question: Pick Five
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Marco Rubio
 
#2
Richard Burr
 
#3
Roy Blunt
 
#4
Joe Heck
 
#5
Kelly Ayotte
 
#6
Pat Toomey
 
#7
Todd Young
 
#8
Ron Johnson
 
#9
Mark Kirk
 
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« on: November 01, 2016, 04:42:01 PM »

Rubio, Burr, Blunt, Toomey, and Johnson (also taking into account opponents)
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« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2016, 04:51:36 PM »

This was really tough, but mine were the same as yours, but with Heck instead of Toomey. As much as I like Todd Young, Evan Bayh is clearly the one of the "acceptable" Democrats to me (though he's shifted left since 2004), and I would have even voted for him in 1998 (his Republican opponent ran WAY to his left on guns), and Young can pick up the other seat in two years. Toomey is a good Senator, but strategically I think Nevada would be a better one to get, plus it would add a Republican pickup to the map, and a nice pie thrown in Harry Reid's face.
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« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2016, 05:07:41 PM »

Not a GOPer, but I'd pick Kirk, Heck, Ayotte, Toomey, and Rubio.(Rubio's the one I'm not completely sure about.)
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« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2016, 05:11:47 PM »

Burr, Heck, Ayotte, Young, Johnson

Not a big fan of Rubio on foreign policy, and Toomey's support for gun control is a no-no for me.  Kirk is pro-abortion, and Blunt is just a weak candidate.
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« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2016, 05:23:56 PM »

Not a Republican, but if I were I'd pick Johnson, Blunt, Rubio, Burr, and Heck
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« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2016, 05:26:14 PM »

Ron Johnson is my favorite of this bunch, even if Feingold is the Democrat I could most stomach. Ayotte and Kirk are insufferable and deserve to be jettisoned, even if their opponents are even more loathsome. I would like to punish the Indiana GOP for rejecting Stutzman, and Bayh is, although corrupt, still more tolerable than most Senate Democrats.

That leaves four to pick from Rubio, Burr, Blunt, Heck, and Toomey. Although I am tempted to strategically pick Rubio to eliminate him from 2020 contention, I find Burr more repugnant.
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« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2016, 05:43:48 PM »

Rubio, Heck, Ayotte, and Toomey is easy. The fifth one is much harder -- it's basically a tie between Kirk and Johnson. Johnson is probably better both ideologically and from a defensible-seat perspective, but he has one of the higher-quality Democratic opponents in Feingold and if there's one thing Kirk has made himself known for this year, it's opposition to Trump. Plus, he's Illinoisan, and the only thing better than that is an Ohioan or a New Yorker, and I see Portman is being taken for granted. So, Rubio, Heck, Ayotte, Toomey, Kirk, but Johnson barely didn't make the cut. In a year with someone else as the presidential nominee he probably would've.

Blunt is a useless lobbyist (and Kander has really earned a Senate seat), Burr seems to just be useless in general, and while I don't mind Young, Bayh is one of my favorite Democratic candidates running this year -- he hits the sweet spot between "person I want the Democratic Party to be representative of" and "person who I wouldn't be frightened of in Congress".

EDIT: Did not realize I would be the first vote for Kirk. Interesting.
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« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2016, 06:13:46 PM »

Young, Heck, Toomey, Ayotte, and Rubio. Close between Rubio and Blunt though because Blunt is very pro agriculture.
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« Reply #8 on: November 01, 2016, 06:13:55 PM »

Rubio, Heck, Ayotte, Toomey, Young.
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« Reply #9 on: November 01, 2016, 06:24:59 PM »
« Edited: November 01, 2016, 06:27:55 PM by Maxwell »

Heck, Ayotte, Kirk, Toomey, and (ugh) Burr. Rubio, Blunt, and Johnson need to be sent to the center of the earth, and Young was barely beat out because his schtick is super obnoxious.

Like Sandoval or Heller, Heck strikes me as someone who you can disagree with without being disagreeable - probaby my favorite of this bunch. Kirk is more moderate but also seems like a worse person, but still beats out several of these other guys. Ayotte is bad, but she's also facing the second worst Democrat opponent of the bunch so Ayotte gets a pass. The other two are terrible, but Toomey made some level of attempt at moderation during his term so he gets to move on to the next level, and Burr beat Young for the fifth spot for reasons already stated.
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« Reply #10 on: November 01, 2016, 07:58:33 PM »

Not a Republican, but I'll do this anyway:

Kirk, Ayotte, Heck (good luck getting him re-elected in 2022), Young, and... ugh, I guess Burr.
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« Reply #11 on: November 02, 2016, 12:07:59 AM »
« Edited: November 02, 2016, 12:13:59 AM by clash »

Burr, Blunt, Johnson, Young, and Toomey. I'm rooting for Duckworth, Hassan, and Cortez-Masto in their races.
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« Reply #12 on: November 02, 2016, 09:25:16 AM »

Rubio, Heck, Ayotte, Toomey, Burr
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« Reply #13 on: November 02, 2016, 01:40:15 PM »

Rubio, Burr, Blunt, Heck and Young
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« Reply #14 on: November 02, 2016, 01:42:05 PM »

Rubio, Burr, Heck, Ayotte, Young.

I like Toomey, but IN would be easier to defend long-term then PA; but this one is interchangable for me. Bayh would be more tolerable then McGinty, for example.
I like Kirk but his idiotic comments as of late show that it might be better to be w/o him.
Johnson sucks, so bye felicia.
Blunt sucks. Kander is Anti-Iran Deal so I could tolerate him.
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« Reply #15 on: November 02, 2016, 01:50:18 PM »

Rubio, Heck, Toomey, Ayotte, Kirk
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« Reply #16 on: November 02, 2016, 03:28:12 PM »

Burr, Blunt, Heck, Ayotte, and Young.

As a Democrat, I would hate this because these senators would likely become entrenched enough in tossup/lean Dem. states to keep them from losing their seats in 2022. I believe Toomey, Johnson, Kirk, and Rubio would still be vulnerable even in a midterm year…
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« Reply #17 on: November 02, 2016, 06:48:37 PM »

Rubio, Burr, Young, Toomey, and Johnson
Honorable Mention to Dr. Joe Heck, who is awesome.
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« Reply #18 on: November 03, 2016, 02:20:44 PM »
« Edited: November 03, 2016, 02:28:48 PM by DavidB. »

Rubio, Heck, Ayotte, Johnson and Burr, in that order. Sorry Young (Bayh is not that bad, Ross and Feingold are). Not sorry, Kirk (who has gone crazy), Toomey (anti-gun) and Blunt (useless).
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