Dorgan, Dodd and Ritter retiring. Democrats on alert.
In a string of rapid announcements we learn that Senator Byron Dorgan of ND, Senator Chris Dodd of CT and Governor Bill Ritter of CO are all planning to retire. Given their polling numbers in their respective states none of this should come as a big shock, although Dorgan was planning to run again as of very recently. This of course has the Republicans salivating harder than Congress over tax revenues. Should it? In the case of Ritter, possibly, in the case of Dorgan/Dodd probably not. Dodd is an especially interesting case considering how much corruption is circulating around this man stemming back from the mortgage crisis. Even if Dodd runs and somehow manages to win his primary he has virtually no chance against the Republicans. In fact the Republicans would use Dodd as a battering ram to humiliate and highlight the Democrat party as the party of corruption, given that 9 of the 10 most corrupt politicians happen to be Democrats. Now ...