How Long Has it Been?

[DownWithTheLeft]

Here's a list of states where one party controls both Senate seats and how long it has been since a member of the other party held a seat:


30+ years
Kansas: George McGill (1939!)
West Virginia: William Rivercomb (1959)
New Jersey: Clifford Case (1972)*

20-30 years
Hawaii: Hiram Fong (THE ONLY R) (1977)
Wyoming: Gale McGee (1977)
Utah: Frank Moss (1977)
Massachusetts: William Brooke (1979)
New Hampshire: John Durkin (1980)
Idaho: Frank Church (1981)
Alaska: Mike Gravel (1981)

10-20
Maryland: Charles Mathias (1987)
Connecticut: Lowell Weicker (1989)
Mississippi: Ed Stentis (1989)
California: John Seymour (1992)
Texas: Robert Gruger (1993)
Wisconsin: Robert Kasten (1993)
Maine: George Mitchell (1995)
Oklahoma: Dan Boren (1995)
Tennessee: James Sasser (1995)
Arizona: Dennis DeConcini (1995)

10< years
Alabama: Thomas Heflin (1997)
Kentucky: Wendell Ford (1999)
New York:  Al D'Amato (1999)
Delaware: William Roth (2001)
Michigan: Spencer Abraham (2001)
Washington: Slade Gorton (2001)
Arkansas: Tim Hutchinson (2003)
Georgia: Zell Miller (2005)
Illinois: Peter Fitzgerald (2005)
North Carolina: John Edwards (2005)
South Carolina: Fritz Hollings (2005)
Rhode Island: Lincoln Chafee (2007)
Montana: Conrad Burns (2007)


*chose to discard Brady b/c he wasn't elected and it makes a big difference on years

[Mr.Phips]

Also 10-20

North Dakota:Mark Andrews(1987)

[jimrtex]

Here's a list of states where one party controls both Senate seats and how long it has been since a member of the other party held a seat:

Massachusetts: William Brooke (1979)

Ed Brooke

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John Stennis

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Robert Krueger

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Howell Heflin

More than 10, now.

And similar category upgrades for Maryland, Utah, Wyoming, and Hawaii, where the last Senator of the out party was more than 5 full terms (or a multiple of 5 full terms ago).

[nclib]

Also, wouldn't Vermont be <10, Jim Jeffords, 2001?

[Gabu]

Also, wouldn't Vermont be <10, Jim Jeffords, 2001?

Sanders is not a Democrat.

[nclib]

Also, wouldn't Vermont be <10, Jim Jeffords, 2001?

Sanders is not a Democrat.

I know, I interpreted the list as states where one party hasn't held a Senate seat since x number of years.

[Gabu]

Also, wouldn't Vermont be <10, Jim Jeffords, 2001?

Sanders is not a Democrat.

I know, I interpreted the list as states where one party hasn't held a Senate seat since x number of years.

No, it's the list of states where one party has held both Senate seats since x number of years.  Vermont isn't on the list since neither party holds both Senate seats.

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Here's the split party states:

NM 1983
IA 1985
OR 1996
NE 1997 - Was 2 Democrats before that, I'm guessing far less DINO than Nelson
IN 1999
NV 2001
VT 2001
MN 2002 (including Reform party in 2002)
CO 2005
FL 2005
LA 2005
SD 2005
CT 2007
MO 2007
OH 2007
PA 2007
VA 2007

[DownWithTheLeft]

Which out of the Longest 3 (KS, NJ, WV) will switch first?

I say next chance Kansas has is if Brownback wins in 08 or retires in 2010 and Sebelius runs.  For WV it's whenever one of the senators retires and Moore takes a run.  For NJ, who knows

I say West Virginia is the first to flip out of those

[Filuwaúrdjan]

For WV it's whenever one of the senators retires and Moore takes a run. 

Even if one of the incumbents retires at some point, Capito wouldn't be favourite to win, unless the Democrats picked a bad candidate to run against her (say, Ken Hechler... if he's still alive by then). She wouldn't be a terrible candidate statewide, but she wouldn't be a good one either (she's actually quite vulnerable to attacks on her socially liberal, for West Virgina anyway, views, and, unlike someone like Rockefeller, she's nowhere near left-wing enough on anything else to easily deflect such attacks). She's an excellent candidate for her district o/c, but that's not the same thing at all.