{"id":32357,"date":"2011-03-06T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/us-senate-montana-nebraska-north-dakota-new-mexico-and-virginia-could-be-gop-pick-ups-for-2012\/"},"modified":"2011-03-06T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T11:35:00","slug":"us-senate-montana-nebraska-north-dakota-new-mexico-and-virginia-could-be-gop-pick-ups-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/us-senate-montana-nebraska-north-dakota-new-mexico-and-virginia-could-be-gop-pick-ups-for-2012.php","title":{"rendered":"US SENATE: Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, New Mexico and Virginia could be GOP pick-ups for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-HwWukJz1PJA\/TXN3uinPgiI\/AAAAAAAARKE\/jPiXp8NE3nU\/s1600\/heather-wilson-150x150.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1119e_heather-wilson-150x150.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>It's still way early.  But <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/senate-races\/147669-republicans-in-solid-shape-to-take-senate-next-year\">The Hill<\/a> is saying that Republicans have a good shot of picking up the Senate for 2012.  Five seats are seen as very vulnerable for Democrats due to retirements, and other factors.<\/p><blockquote><p>The first edition of The Hill's 2012 race ratings puts five Democratic-held seats in the toss-up column. Republicans need a net gain of at least three seats to win the Senate.<\/p><p>Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) are the two incumbents that top of the list of vulnerable Senate Democrats in 2012. And, thanks to retirements, another three Democratic-held seats are toss-ups -- the ones held by Sens. Kent Conrad (N.D.), Jeff Bingaman (N.M.) and Jim Webb (Va.).<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Nebraska and North Dakota are virtually certain GOP pick-ups with only nominal Dem opposition emerging to strong established GOP contenders. Montana near certain with Cong. Mike Rehberg on the GOP side.   <\/p><p>Note - Hawaii too has become open with the recent retirement announcement of Dem Sen. Danial Akaka.  <\/p><p><em>Photo of fmr. NM Cong. Heather Wilson, likely GOP nominee.<\/em><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1119e_7828681836623105417-6946323911702735188?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Eric Dondero:It's still way early. But The Hill is saying that Republicans have a good shot of picking up the Senate for 2012. Five seats are seen as very vulnerable for Democrats due to retirements, and other factors.The first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/us-senate-montana-nebraska-north-dakota-new-mexico-and-virginia-could-be-gop-pick-ups-for-2012.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}