Candidates for Election to the U.S. Senate, 111th Congress

This page shows all the Senate elections scheduled for 2008, with the name, status and party of each candidate.  If you click on the state name in the list below, you’ll reach a page where we’ve collected much of the information regarding the candidates’ positions on energy and environmental aspects of energy.  From there you can follow the links to their official statements (largely collected from campaign literature) and to 3rd-party reports on their positions and–where appropriate–their voting record.

Some of the things you’ll notice as you step through the links:

• Some of the candidates have surprisingly little to say in their campaign literature on the whole subject of energy, and even less on renewable energy.  We’ve resisted the impulse to editorialize, and in cases where the candidate did not address renewables at all we’ve simply reported that fact.
• We’ve included relevant press releases issued by candidates’ campaign offices, except where the candidates have taken the opportunity to print negative material about their opponents.
• We’ve made universal use of the web site www.ontheissues.org, which is an excellent source of non-partisan information on candidates’ positions on scores of issues, not just energy and the environment.

We want to keep the listings as up-to-date and relevant as we can, and you can help us to do that.  If you come across additional relevant candidate information in local news outlets, campaign literature or elsewhere, why not send a link to us at Solar Nation?  We can’t guarantee that we’ll publish it (we have to be non-partisan ourselves, and we won’t reproduce attack ads or articles in a similar vein), but we’ll publish whatever fairly presents the candidate’s positions.

It would also help if you could alert us to any outdated or broken links you find as you travel around the nation from this page.

Alabama

Incumbent       Jeff Sessions ( R )         
Challenger       Vivian Davis Figures ( D )

Alaska

Incumbent       Ted Stevens ( R )          
Challengers     Mark Begich ( D ), Dave Cuddy ( R ), Rick Sikma ( R )

Arkansas

Incumbent       Mark Pryor ( D )
Challenger       Rebekah Kennedy ( G )

Colorado

Incumbent       retiring
Challengers     Bob Schaffer ( R ), Mark Udall ( D )

Delaware

Incumbent       Joe Biden ( D )
Challenger       Christine O’Donnell ( R )

Georgia

Incumbent       Saxby Chambliss ( R )
Challengers      Allen Buckley ( L ), Vernon Jones ( D ), Jim Martin ( D )

Idaho

Incumbent       retiring
Challengers      Larry LaRocco ( D ), Jim Risch ( R )

Illinois

Incumbent       Richard Durbin ( D )
Challengers     Steve Sauerberg ( R ), Larry Stafford ( L )

Iowa

Incumbent       Tom Harkin ( D )
Challenger       Christopher Reed ( R )

Kansas

Incumbent       Pat Roberts ( R )          
Challenger       Jim Slattery ( D )

Kentucky

Incumbent       Mitch McConnell ( R )
Challenger       Bruce Lunsford ( D )

Louisiana

Incumbent      Mary Landrieu ( D )
Challenger      John Neely Kennedy ( R )

Maine

Incumbent      Susan Collins ( R )
Challenger      Tom Allen ( D )

Massachusetts

Incumbent      John Kerry ( D )
Challengers    Jeff Beatty ( R ), Ed O’Reilly ( D )

Michigan

Incumbent      Carl Levin ( D )
Challenger      Jack Hoogendyk ( R )

Minnesota

Incumbent      Norm Coleman ( R )
Challengers    Dean Barkley ( I ), Michael Cavlan ( G ), Al Franken (DFL)

Mississippi

Incumbents     Thad Cochran ( R ), Roger Wicker ( R ) (appointed)
Challengers     Erik Fleming ( D ), Ronnie Musgrove ( D )

Montana

Incumbent       Max Baucus ( D )
Challenger       Bob Kelleher ( R )

Nebraska

Incumbent       retiring
Challengers     Mike Johanns ( R ), Scott Kleeb ( D ), Steven Larrick (G)

New Hampshire

Incumbent      John Sununu ( R )
Challengers     Ken Blevens ( L ), Jeanne Shaheen ( D )

New Jersey

Incumbent      Frank Lautenberg ( D )      
Challenger      Dick Zimmer ( R )

New Mexico

Incumbent      retiring           
Challengers     Steve Pearce ( R ), Tom Udall ( D )

North Carolina

Incumbent      Elizabeth Dole ( R )
Challenger      Kay Hagan ( D )

Oklahoma           

Incumbent       James Inhofe ( R )           
Challenger       Andrew Rice ( D )

Oregon

Incumbent      Gordon Smith ( R )           
Challengers     Dave Brownlow ( C ), Jeff Merkley ( D )

Rhode Island

Incumbent       Jack Reed ( D )           
Challengers     Bob Tingle ( R ), Chris Young ( D )

South Carolina

Incumbent      Lindsey Graham ( R )        
Challengers    Bob Conley ( D ), Mark McBride ( I )

South Dakota

Incumbent      Tim Johnson ( D )          
Challenger      Joel Dykstra ( R )

Tennessee           

Incumbent      Lamar Alexander ( R )       
Challengers    Chris Lugo ( G ), Bob Tuke ( D )

Texas

Incumbent       John Cornyn ( R )           
Challengers     Scott Jameson ( L ), Rick Noriega ( D )

Virginia

Incumbent       retiring
Challengers     Jim Gilmore ( R ), Mark Warner ( D )

West Virginia 

Incumbent       Jay Rockefeller ( D )          
Challenger       Jay Wolfe ( D )

Wyoming           

Incumbents    Michael Enzi ( R ), John Barrasso ( R ) (appointed)
Challengers    Chris Rothfuss (D), Nick Carter (D)