I don't think it's too early to start thinking about the 2012 Senate elections. It's not a pretty picture with 21 Democratic seats to defend, only 10 Republican seats in mostly safely R states (except Scott Brown in MA), 1 Independent seat (Bernie Sanders in VT is a lock) and 1 Connecticut for Lieberman seat that we better damn well win back.
If you recall, this is the Senate Class of 2006 where we managed some surprisingly close wins (Tester in MT, Webb in VA, McCaskill in MO). We'll also need to consider if any of the Senators up for re-election will retire and forego a re-election bid.
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