Moderates in the next Senate

[Ichabod]

With Sen. Snowe, Lieberman and Nelson retiring, who are going to be the most liberal Republicans and most conservative Democrats?

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Manchin
Baucus
Warner
Pryor
Landrieu
McCaskill
Kaine

Collins
Murkowski
Hoeven
Grassley
Graham

[Marokai Backbeat]

There are no Republican moderates in the Senate.

[smoltchanov]

Manchin and Collins correspondingly. Though when i look back (to the time. when my interest in Americam politics began to show itself initially) and see such Senators as Eastland and McClellan among Democrats and Javits and Case among Republicans - i understand how much more interesting politics was then. Now in 95% of cases i can predict voting patterns and numbers without any need to think, political polarization is beyond imaginable, much less compromise and generally - politics became much more boring: simply count number of "D"'s and "R"'s in chamber and you got fair idea of what will happen. Present day "moderates" among Democrats are much more liberal then in the past, and vice versa - for Republicans...

[adma]

Not saying he'll make it into the next Senate, but Scott Brown?

[Antonio the Sixth]

There are no Republican moderates in the Senate.

Yeah, there have not been any since Chafee and Jeffords left.

[opebo]

All Senate Democrats are moderates, guys, lets be realistic.  The only 'left leaning' Democrats in elected office at the national level might be a few in the House from the Black caucus or something like that.

[Franzl]

There are no Republican moderates in the Senate.

Yes. If we're already calling people like outgoing Lugar "moderate", something is wrong.

[smoltchanov]

There are no Republican moderates in the Senate.

Yes. If we're already calling people like outgoing Lugar "moderate", something is wrong.

Lugar is pragmatic conservative, but Collins and Snowe are moderates...

[adma]

All Senate Democrats are moderates, guys, lets be realistic.  The only 'left leaning' Democrats in elected office at the national level might be a few in the House from the Black caucus or something like that.

Unless you include "caucus with" sorts like Bernie Sanders, of course.

[smoltchanov]

All Senate Democrats are moderates, guys, lets be realistic.  The only 'left leaning' Democrats in elected office at the national level might be a few in the House from the Black caucus or something like that.

Disagree strongly. Franken and Boxer, for example, are far-left-wingers for me, and nothing less.