Women: Sen. Bob Menendez paid us for sex in the Dominican Republic

[Skill and Chance]

Menendez would be an interesting possibility.

If this blew up enough, could he potentially lose? I think it's safe to say if this is Nelson, Brown, or Tester, they'll more than likely lose.

Well, it's perhaps more relevant that if it is Menendez and he was forced out, Christie would get to appoint.  And apparently under NJ law the appointee serves out the term?

[Skill and Chance]

As long as it isn't Sherrod Brown, I don't really care...

That's who first crossed my mind.

By the way, this scandal could mean Senator Booker. If Menendez resigns, you know Christie will do that.

Not if he wants to win a Republican presidential primary.

Political self-preservation comes first.  He's up next fall.  If he appointed a Republican to flip the senate only months after the state voted in a Democrat, he might as well not run for re-election in blue NJ.  Particularly if his appointee is the deciding vote on the Ryan Budget, he would be setting himself up for inverse 2010.