Well, this sucks.
The full article is here.
The short version is that Kerry will not resign his senate seat in June of this year. If he did, the republican who Gov. Romney would appoint would have to run to keep the seat in November 04. Instead, if Kerry loses the race for president he'll keep his comfy seat, but if he wins the Massachusetts delegation gets a Republican infestation which we'll be unable to get rid of until 2006.
I can only hope that this is bravado. Come April or May, I'll try to get folks in Mass. to write Kerry urging him to resign. One less Dem. today won't make much difference, but one less in 2005 could easily mean the difference between who's the majority and who isn't.