National Race by Race Analysis... U.S. Senate

Earlier, the State of Sunshine posted it's prediction that the Democrats will take control of the United States Senate. To give you a guide to the elections, I have taken six national tracking sites and listed the top 9 races - 7 Republican seats and 2 Democratic seats. This is a lot of information to read, but I wanted you to see how these pundits saw the races (links to their sites are listed below). Here is a quick codes to the races: TU = Toss up LeR = Leaning Republican; LiR = Likely Republican; SaR = Safe Republican LeD = Leaning Democratic; LiD = Likely Democratic; SaD = Safe Democratic As you can, look at the colors of the boxes... yellow is used to denote toss up races, with shades of red for Republicans and shades of blue for Democrats. Finally, you may want to print this page and use it on election night. So, I present to you a rundown of 9 seats in the U.S. Senate -- a chart you can only find on the State of Sunshine (which makes me wish I had done this weeks ago):

State	Rep	Dem	WP	Sab	CQP	Roth	Cook	NYT
MD	Michael Steele	Ben Cardin	LeD	LeD	LeD	LeD	TU	LeD
MO	Sen. Jim Tallent (i)	Claire McKaskill	TU	TU	TU	LeD	TU	TU
MT	Sen. Conrad Burns (i)	Jon Tester	TU	LeD	LeD	LeD	TU	TU
NJ	Tom Kean, Jr	Sen. Bob Menendez (i)	LeD	TU	TU	LeD	TU	LeD
OH	Sen. Mike DeWine (i)	Sherrod Brown	LeD	LiD	LeD	LiD	LeD	LeD
PA	Sen. Rick Santorum (i)	Bob Casey	LeD	SaD	LeD	LiD	LeD	LeD
RI	Sen. Lincoln Chafee (i)	Sheldon Whitehouse	TU	LeD	LeD	LeD	TU	LeD
TN	Bob Corker	Harold Ford	LeR	LeR	TU	TU	TU	LeR
VA	Sen. George Allen (i)	Jim Webb	TU	TU	TU	LeD	TU	TU
WP = Washington Post
Sab = Larry Sabato
CQP = CQ Politics
Roth = Stu Rothenberg
Cook = Charlie Cook (PDF)
NYT = New York Times