challenge, because the deck is stacked against them. because if you want to tack about obama. who wants to poison the well? the democrats have to poison the well for the republicans at the quote local level. let me go back to david, because i see a couple of problems that don t have anything to do with these patterns especially. i m looking at michigan. that s a tough one. i m looking at oregon. that s a tough one. al franken, who has done everything right, three years of living out there, doing his job, keeping his head down, no national interviews, being a great senator, attentive to all the issues, it s not going to be easy in minnesota. it s not going to be easy in michigan. oregon is not going to be easy. eddie markey has to fight for reelection. everybody has to fight for reelection. i don t know who is safe besides your friend durbin there is not many who say yeah, that guy is probably going to get reelected. isn t that the case? isn t that the way you re looking at it, da
the democrats have to poison the well for the republicans at the quote local level. let me go back to david, because i see a couple of problems that don t have anything to do with these patterns especially. i m looking at michigan. that s a tough one. i m looking at oregon. that s a tough one. al franken, who has done everything right, three years of living out there, doing his job, keeping his head down, no national interviews, being a great senator, attentive to all the issues, it s not going to be easy in minnesota. it s not going to be easy in michigan. oregon is not going to be easy. eddie markey has to fight for reelection. everybody has to fight for reelection. i don t know who is safe besides your friend durbin there is not many who say yeah, that guy is probably going to get reelected. isn t that the case? isn t that the way you re looking at it, david? i think that s right. i think we should approach it that way. i ve been a little dismayed, and i ve talked about it, th