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I was going to announce this at a later date.  I am in the process of creating  interactive 2008 election maps, they are based on SVG which will allow them to be animated. Firefox has limited built in support and IE requires a adobe plug in.

The senate map will show state by state who has to face the voters … who is retiring … who has pissed off voters in their state … I have not yet drawn any conclusions, but after the data is assembled the question of who will control the senate in 2008 may be obvious.

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In the NYtimes piece New Weaknesses in G.O.P.’s Defensive Line it appears somebody has begun analyzing who is up for re-election in the senate in 2008.

It is a simple math problem: Republicans have 22 seats to defend, Democrats 12. Less is more in this case.

Here is a link to the FEC data that has been online since 2004. Hmm, I count 21? Well this post is not about math, It is about being mislead by the headline: There is nothing new is the story. Hay NY times look at this site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2012

I would be very happy if the title was “Fate Sets up GOP for a Lose in the Senate in 2008″

Not only is the approval of the Senate at record setting lows. Not only have during this election cycle people stop donating to the GOP out of protests of being ignored on the immigration issue.

But the vast majority of seats up for re-election belong to the GOP, who won nearly 2/3 of them in 2002; because of angry votes. Well they are angry again when people ask them how they feel about the senate. If the GOP breaks even they will lose the Senate. Going state by state here are issues that politician have ignored but maybe not angry votes … read NYTime story for a summary of what the bums did.

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