The next three Senate classes

Just to offer a preview of who is likely to control the Senate in the years to come, I am going to list the makeup of the Senate classes that will be up for reelection in 2008, 2010, and 2012. Oftentimes the party in control of the Senate is decided by the makeup of the class that is up for reelection as much as anything else--

2008 election cycle: 21 Republicans, 12 Democrats

Republicans--

1. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama)
2. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)
3. Wayne Allard (R-Colorado)
4. Saxby Chambliss (R-Georgia)
5. Larry Craig (R-Idaho)
6. Pat Roberts (R-Kansas)
7. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky)
8. Susan Collins (R-Maine)
9. Norm Coleman (R-Minnesota)
10. Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi)
11. Chuck Hagel (R-Nebraska)
12. John Sununu (R-New Hampshire)
13. Pete Domenici (R-New Mexico)
14. Elizabeth Dole (R-North Carolina)
15. James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma)
16. Gordon Smith (R-Oregon)
17. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina)
18. Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee)
19. John Cornyn (R-Texas)
20. John Warner (R-Virginia)
21. Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming)

Democrats--

1. Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas)
2. Joseph Biden (D-Delaware)
3. Richard Durbin (D-Illinois)
4. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)
5. Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana)
6. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts)
7. Carl Levin (D-Michigan)
8. Max Baucus (D-Montana)
9. Frank Lautenberg (D-New Jersey)
10. Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island)
11. Tim Johnson (D-South Dakota)
12. Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia)


2010 election cycle : 19 Republicans, 15 Democrats

Republicans--

1. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
2. Richard Shelby (R-Alabama)
3. John McCain (R-Arizona)
4. Mel Martinez (R-Florida)
5. Johnny Isakson (R-Georgia)
6. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
7. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho)
8. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas)
9. Jim Bunning (R-Kentucky)
10. David Vitter (R-Louisiana)
11. Kit Bond (R-Missouri)
12. Richard Burr (R-North Carolina)
13. Judd Gregg (R-New Hampshire)
14. George Voinovich (R-Ohio)
15. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma)
16. Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania)
17. Jim Demint (R-South Carolina)
18. John Thune (R-South Dakota)
19. Robert Bennett (R-Utah)

Democrats--

1. Blanche Lincoln (D-Arkansas)
2. Barbara Boxer (D-California)
3. Ken Salazar (D-Colorado)
4. Chris Dodd (D-Connecticut)
5. Dan Inoyue (D-Hawaii)
6. Barack Obama (D-Illinois)
7. Evan Bayh (D-Indiana)
8. Barbara Mikulski (D-Maryland)
9. Byron Dorgan (D-North Dakota)
10. Harry Reid (D-Nevada)
11. Chuck Schumer (D-New York)
12. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon)
13. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont)
14. Patty Murray (D-Washington)
15. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin)


2012 election cycle: 23 Democrats, 9 Republicans

Republicans:

1. John Ensign (R-Nevada)
2. Bob Corker (R-Tennessee)
3. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)
4. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-New Mexico)
5. Jon Kyl (R-Arizona)
6. Trent Lott (R-Mississippi)
7. Richard Lugar (R-Indiana)
8. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine)
9. Craig Thomas (R-Wyoming)

Democrats:

1. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii)
2. Jeff Bingaman (D-New Mexico)
3. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)
4. Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia)
5. Maria Cantwell (D-Washington)
6. Ben Cardin (D-Maryland)
7. Tom Carper (D-Delaware)
8. Bob Casey (D-Pennsylvania)
9. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York)
10. Kent Conrad (D-North Dakota)
11. Dianne Feinstein (D-California
12. Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts)
13. Herb Kohl (D-Wisconsin)
14. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota)
15. Joe Lieberman (ID-Connecticut)
16. Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri)
17. Bill Nelson (D-Florida)
18. Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska)
19. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont)
20. Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan)
21. Jon Tester (D-Montana)
22. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island)
23. Jim Webb (D-Virginia)