If the US had three parties, this is what the Senate would look like
Republican: Stevens - AK Murkowski - AK Sessions - AL Shelby - AL Kyl - AZ Allard - CO Martinez - FL Isaakson - GA Chambliss - GA Grassley - IA Crapo - ID Craig - ID Brownback - KS Roberts -KS Bunning - KY McConnell - KY Vitter - LA Talent - MO Bond - MO Lott - MS Cochran - MS Burns - MT Dole - NC Burr - NC Domenici - NM Ensign - NV Inhofe - OK Coburn - OK Santorum - PA Graham - SC DeMint - SC Thune - SD Frist - TN Alexander - TN Hutchison - TX Cornyn - TX Hatch - UT Bennett - UT Allen - VA Warner - VA Thomas - WY Enzi - WY
42 Republicans
Democratic: Boxer - CA Dodd - CT Inouye - HI Akaka - HI Harkin - IA Obama - IL Durbin - IL Kennedy - MA Kerry - MA Sarbanes - MD Mikulski - MD Levin - MI Dayton - MN Dorgan - ND Conrad - ND Lautenberg - NJ Menendez - NJ Bingaman - NM Reid - NV Schumer - NY Wyden - OR Reed - RI Johnson - SD Leahy - VT Cantwell - WA Murray - WA Feingold - WI Kohl - WI Byrd - WV Rockefeller - WV
30 Dems
Centrist: Lincoln - AR Pryor - AR McCain - AZ Feinstein - CA Salazar - CO Lieberman - CT Carper - DE Biden - DE Nelson - FL Lugar - IN Bayh - IN Landrieu - LA Snowe - ME Collins - ME Stabenow - MI Coleman - MN Baucus - MT Sununu - NH Gregg - NH Nelson - NE Hagel - NE Clinton - NY Voinovich - OH DeWine - OH Smith - OR Specter - PA Chaffee - RI Jeffords - VT
3. McCain I think is enough of a maverick to leave the Repugs
and as for Biden, he has been a lot more hawkish than Kerry, and he is from a state with a large population of credit card companies - making him pro-corporate.
and we would be no more screwed than we are now. Except that, as a single unit, the centrist party can reign in the excesses of the party with which it forms a coalition.
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