Call It a Trend

—By Jonathan Stein

| Mon Jan. 12, 2009 9:48 AM PST

George Voinovich is retiring. Kit Bond is retiring. Sam Brownback is retiring. Mel Martinez is retiring. Republican senators are heading to greener pastures, folks. A difficult 2010 map for the GOP is getting harder and harder.

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