How would you vote? Your state's Senate Seats?

[Mr. Smith]

And go?

I'll be doing both CA and TX.

Anyway:

TX

1941: Abstain (LBJ in the Primary)
1942: O'Daniel
1946: Connally
1948: LBJ
1952: Abstain
1954: LBJ
1958: Yarborough
1960: LBJ
1961: Blakely
1964: Yarborough
1966: Carr
1970: Bentsen (Yarborough in the Primary)
1972: Sanders
1976: Bentsen
1978: Krueger
1982: Bentsen
1984: Doggett
1988: Bentsen
1990: Parmer
1993: Krueger
1994: Hutchison
1996: Morales
2000: Kelly
2002: Kirk
2006: Hutchison
2008: Noriega
2012: Sadler
2014: Abstain
2018: O'Rourke [or other Democrat if primaried]


CA

1938: Downey
1940: Johnson
1944: Houser
1946: Rogers
1950: Flawless Beautiful Douglas
1952: Borough
1954: Yorty
1956: Kuchel
1958: Knight
1962: Kuchel
1964: Salinger
1968: Cranston
1970: Tunney
1974: Cranston
1976: Abstain
1980: Cranston
1982: Brown
1986: Abstain
1988: McCarthy
1992: Boxer
1992 Spec: Feinstein
1994: Feinstein
1998: Boxer
2000: Campbell
2004: Boxer
2006: Feinland
2010: Boxer
2012: Abstain
2016: Harris
2018: Any Other Democrat/abstain if a Republican actually makes it

[Mr. Smith]

2018: Any Other Democrat/abstain if a Republican actually makes it

Would you even vote for a major Planned Parenthood supporter like Nick Hexum or Liz Phair if one of them pulls a Kid Rock? Hexum and Phair would be extremely poor candidates for communitarian Democratic voters.

I might abstain in that case too, unless they do have a chance of knocking out DiFi, can't pass that up.

...Alright I'll do Virginia too

1958: Louise Wensel
1960: Clarke Robb
1964: Richard A. May
1966 Spec: Lawrence Traylor
1966: William Spong
1970: George Rawlings
1972: William Spong
1976: Elmo Zumwalt
1978: John Warner
1982: Richard Davis
1984: John Warner
1988: Chuck Robb
1990: John Warner
1994: Chuck Robb
1996: Mark Warner
2000: Chuck Robb
2002: John Warner
2006: Jim Webb
2008: Mark Warner
2012: Tim Kaine
2014: Mark Warner
2018: Tim Kaine
2020: Mark Warner

[Mr. Smith]

2018: Joe Donnelly
2012: Joe Donnelly (R Primary: Richard Lugar)
2006: Richard Lugar
2000: Richard Lugar
1994: Richard Lugar
1988: Richard Lugar
1982: Richard Lugar
1976: Richard Lugar

2016: Evan Bayh
2010: Brad Ellsworth
2004: Evan Bayh
1998: Evan Bayh
1992: Joe Hogsett
1990: Baron Hill
1986: Jill Long Thompson
1980: Birch Bayh
1974: Birch Bayh

One thing I'm just now realizing is every single one of these people, and every nominee for US Senate from Indiana since 1974, is still a mainstay in Indiana politics. Weird.

Why not more Vance Hartke?