Dodd, Dorgan out; 5 other Senate Dems vulnerable

(By Joseph Curl, Washington Times) - While two Senate Democrats already have seen the handwriting on the wall and bailed out of re-election races, five others trail Republicans in states where President Obama and his trillion-dollar health-care-reform plan are increasingly unpopular.

From Nevada, where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid trails badly, to Arkansas, where Sen. Blanche Lincoln is polling at just 40 percent in head-to-head matchups with four possible Republican challengers, opposition to the health-care bill is reverberating.

"As numerous polls continue to reflect, Americans in key battleground states disapprove of the president's massive health-care proposal and the partisan manner in which Democrats have pursued it," Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, told The Washington Times.