they beat blanche lincoln in arkansas, tom daschle in south dakota, russ feingold in wisconsin, that's it. during the same five elections, democrats defeated 11 republican senate incumbents, three verses 11. that is kind of interesting when you consider that one of those five was 2010 which was a fabulous year for republicans where they picked up six senate seats but they only knocked off one senate democrat incumbent that year. there is something going on that republicans have had over the last decade, real problem knocking off democratic incumbents and they've got to knock off two or three of those this time. maybe it's the same thing, maybe not. our newsletter, we do an updated weekly through the election cycle, the races all over the country. going into election day 2010, a great year for republicans, we had seven senate races that we called tossups. republicans lost five out of seven. interesting. 2012, we had 10 tossup senate races that year. republicans lost eight out of 10. the close ones -- up0, the republicans picked six seats but if you had read "time magazine" a month befor