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Fleeing The Ship

February 11, 2008

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Daniel Larison

With Shadegg’s unexpected retirement, that brings the total number of open seats that the Republicans will be defending to either 22 (per CQ) or 26 (per Ambinder) or 29 (per Politico), plus four vacancies of members who have already resigned or died.  Many of these open seats are in safe Republican territory, but at least eight are toss-ups and four are only leaning Republican.  The GOP has at least 28 vulnerable (toss-up or lean Republican) seats in this cycle. 

P.S. To put this in context, Democrats lost 22 open seats in 1994.

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Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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