Two years later, however, Schiff ran for the state Senate in an open seat and won.
What will they be thinking about the results in Arizona, where there was an open seat?
Democrats would love to pick off this open seat, but the odds seem long.
Political handicappers Stuart Rothenberg and Charlie Cook both rate the open seat as safe for Republicans.
Chavez is vying for an open seat on the council to have more clout in the U.N. system.
The open seat was created when six-term GOP Rep. Jennifer Dunn retired.
Democrats only had to defend one open seat, in Iowa, where Democratic Secretary of State Chet Culver beat Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Nussle.
The state will also be a proving ground for the Senate GOP, which is expected to pick up the open seat of retiring Democratic Sen.
Latecomers circled like vultures looking for the odd open seat.
Republicans will be competitive in Democratic open seats in Iowa, Michigan and Montana if they recruit top-quality candidates like Rep. Mike Rogers, who's considering a run for Michigan's open seat.
Melissa Hart, a conservative Republican who holds a Democratic seat in the state Legislature and has displayed the political appeal to make her a formidable candidate for the open seat.
In any event, as Erramilli the dawdler finally got on board, he found the only remaining open seat between a female passenger at the window and her husband on the aisle.
The Democrats successfully defended an open seat in Delaware.
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The digital ants were given only a few simple rules: find an open seat, wait if the path was blocked, ask other ants to move if they were in the way, etc.
Yet another open seat yawns in the impoverished Delta region in the south-east, where Marion Berry, a Clinton administration official who won his seat in 1996, also bowed out of a re-election bid in late January for health reasons.
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Conversations with advisers to several potential candidates suggest that the first reason for the slow ramp-up is a basic one: The coming campaign isn't for an open seat in the White House, but rather will be a race against an incumbent president.
Republicans took control of the Virginia Assembly (giving them control over both houses of the Legislature), won a special election in a GOP open seat in the Washington State House (to return the body to deadlock), and won the Erie County (New York) executive's race.
Carroll predicts all of the six incumbents (Diane Feinstein (D- CA), Debbie Stabenov (D-MI), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) Maria Cantwell (D-WA)) will win without trouble and points to open seat elections in Hawaii, where former Governor Linda Lingle (R) and former Representative Mazie Hirono (D) are locked in a tight race.
Democrats, who trail in the race for the open Democratic seat in Nevada, need to hold the open Democratic seats in New Jersey, New York and Nebraska, and hope for a come-from-behind victory by Virginia Democrat Charles Robb, to have any chance of recapturing the Senate.
His appointment to fill an open Fed seat must be approved by the Senate.
Blagojevich, a Democrat, has been accused of trying to sell Obama's open Senate seat.
Of these states, the races are particularly competitive in California and Florida, which are both open-seat races.
And in Arizona an open congressional seat as resulted in a split among GOP voters over how to deal with illegal immigrants.
Democrats knocked off one GOP House incumbent, held onto one of their open seats, and almost snatched a strongly GOP-leaning open congressional seat.
Thompson, by contrast, won an open Senate seat in the best Republican election year in half a century and was re-elected against a sacrificial lamb.
But Barack Obama captured the open Senate seat in Illinois for the Democrats, becoming only the fifth black ever to sit in the upper chamber.
Andrews, first elected to Congress in 1990, was a Camden County freeholder who ran for an open House seat when then-incumbent Jim Florio (D) ran for governor.
The latest Kennedy trying to enter the family business of U.S. national politics has quickly built a large war chest in his bid for an open congressional seat.
An open House seat is up for grabs in Wisconsin, where Republican John Gard and Democrat Steve Kagen are vying to replace Republican Mark Green, who is running for governor.
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