The announcements this week, all on the same day, that Democrat Senators Chris Dodd and Byron Dorgan and Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, also a Democrat, will not seek reelection looks like a case of rats jumping a sinking ship. But it could also be a case of the rats being thrown overboard by the Democrat leadership as polls are indicating that their chances of being reelected in their respective states are somewhat less than an ice cube has in hell.
