Another Senate race in November just got more complicated.  According to The Hill today, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden will not be running for the Senate in Delaware.  When Joe Biden became Vice-President, Ted Kaufman was appointed to fill his Senate seat.  Mr. Kaufman has stated that he is not interested in running for the office in November.

Representative Mike Castle is expected to be the Republican candidate for the Senate seat. 

At the same time that Beau Biden annouced that he would not run for the Senate, Representative Marion Berry (D-Ark.) on Sunday became the sixth Democrat this cycle to announce he would be retiring from politics.  Representative Berry has stated that he thought the Democrats were overzealous in their pursuit of legislative initiatives like healthcare.

The House members that have chosen not to run in 2010 have generally been “Blue Dog” Democrats (theoretically conservative Democrats).  Their re-election has been made very difficult by the liberal policies the Obama Administration has espoused.  The problem for the Democrats is that although Nancy Pelosi would love to have many more liberal representatives and less Blue Dog representatives, the Blue Dogs have a much better chance of getting elected in most of the country.  Many of the current members of the House of Representatives won their elections in 2008 by claiming to be conservative; those members have not voted as conservatives and will have a difficult time being re-elected in 2010.