Senate 2008

Above is video from a phone interview I conducted with US Senate candidate Jeff Beatty from Massachusetts.

An exhaustive rundown of the state of play in the Senate from one of our election gurus. -Patrick

I hate for this first post to be something of a downer, but I would hope it would be taken here as more of a wake-up call. The need for a site like NextRight is all the more pressing, because talk of a filibuster-proof Democratic majority is no longer idle speculation. The odds of an effectively-filibuster-proof Democratic majority (57-59 seats) are probably around 40% right now; the odds of a truly filibuster-proof Democratic majority are probably at 10%.

Read on.