Can the Democrats get 60 seats in the Senate, which will be enough seats to block a filibuster?

By Tom Curry
National affairs writer
MSNBC
Oct. 8, 2008

WASHINGTON - Over a year ago, in August 2007, I went out on a limb and wrote that “it now looks possible that in next year’s elections the Democrats just might attain the 60 seats they need to foil Republican filibusters.”
That possibility seemed far-fetched then. Today it seems feasible.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, told reporters at a Capitol Hill briefing Wednesday that the prospect of his party getting 60 seats “are better than they were two weeks ago; they keep getting better, but you don’t know until you get much closer” to Election Day.
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