Most upsetting senate race of 2004

[Keystone Phil]

OMG!! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shut up. Don't you have something dumb to post on another board?

[A18]

Yes, and if I didn't have to waste my time defending threads from your PA13 bullsh**t, I'd have gotten around to posting it by now.

[Keystone Phil]

Yes, and if I didn't have to waste my time defending threads from your PA13 bullsh**t, I'd have gotten around to posting it by now.

You don't have to defend ANYTHING. Don't like it? SKIP OVER IT.

[A18]

Alternately, you could quit flooding threads with PA13 garbage. I don't go into your PA13 thread and flood it with posts, and then tell you to skip over it.

[Keystone Phil]

Alternately, you could quit flooding threads with PA13 garbage. I don't go into your PA13 thread and flood it with posts, and then tell you to skip over it.

We don't flood threads with PA 13. Do me a favor and stop your complaining.

[WalterMitty]

the biggest disappointment was the illinois gop running alan keyes.

[Democratic Hawk]

Kentucky - I'd looked for a while that Mongiardo was about to pip Bunning, but it wasn't to be

However, I felt a tinge of sadness in Vitter being elected in Louisiana. For generations, that state made a principled stand (in my eyes anyway) by not returning the 'party of Lincoln' to the US Senate

Dave

[opebo]

Oklahoma.  All the GOP freshmen Senators are from the religious nut wing, but Coburn is by far the worst.

[Andy Hine]

I actually voted IL, since CA wasn't  an option.  I just don't like Obama.

I have a feeling he'll be around for a while. You should get used to him.

[MATTROSE94]

Probably Louisiana in retrospect, as John Breaux likely would have been re-elected in 2004, 2010, and 2016 before retiring in 2022. Even though John Breaux was a very conservative Democrat along the lines of Joe Manchin, his continued presence in the Senate might have given the Democrats a better advantage going into this year's Senate races and increased their chances to get a working majority.

[Wrenchmob]

Probably Louisiana in retrospect, as John Breaux likely would have been re-elected in 2004, 2010, and 2016 before retiring in 2022. Even though John Breaux was a very conservative Democrat along the lines of Joe Manchin, his continued presence in the Senate might have given the Democrats a better advantage going into this year's Senate races and increased their chances to get a working majority.

Breaux would not have made it past 2010.

[Mr. Smith]

Probably Louisiana in retrospect, as John Breaux likely would have been re-elected in 2004, 2010, and 2016 before retiring in 2022. Even though John Breaux was a very conservative Democrat along the lines of Joe Manchin, his continued presence in the Senate might have given the Democrats a better advantage going into this year's Senate races and increased their chances to get a working majority.

Nah, Breaux was doomed to be Blanched. Same with Daschle.

But Edwards might have been able to hang on in 2010 and 2016.

[Wrenchmob]

Probably Louisiana in retrospect, as John Breaux likely would have been re-elected in 2004, 2010, and 2016 before retiring in 2022. Even though John Breaux was a very conservative Democrat along the lines of Joe Manchin, his continued presence in the Senate might have given the Democrats a better advantage going into this year's Senate races and increased their chances to get a working majority.

Nah, Breaux was doomed to be Blanched. Same with Daschle.

But Edwards might have been able to hang on in 2010 and 2016.

Edwards almost certainly would have lost in 2010.

[Vosem]

Of the choices, probably Colorado rather than Illinois; both because I don't think replacing Obama with Hillary would've changed very much, and because I think a moderately competent Republican would've held the seat in 2010 and 2016. (Coors himself might've lost because he supported civil unions at a time when very few Republicans did, right? In NBC News' transcript of the debate Salazar goes ahead and attacks him over it; unreal that this was only a decade and a half ago.) Though Coors was also a drunk, appropriately enough.

Of all of the races, it's a damn shame we didn't try to knock out Reid. Even if the collapse of the Reid/Ensign detente would've cost us another Senate seat in 2006, knocking that SOB out would've been worth it.

In general, considering these Senate races just seems to underscore how long ago 2004 was. Really a different era, one where Senators would agree to have their parties refrain from running serious candidates against each other and Democrats could still win in red states if they were sufficiently willing to attack Republicans over their support for gay rights.