There are a couple of states where long-shot Democratic takeover opportunities could turn into full-blown Senate headaches for the GOP. But Alabama isn’t one of them.
Sen. Richard Shelby has represented Alabama in Washington, DC for 42 years, first in the House and since 1987 in the Senate, and as both a Democrat — for the first 16 years — and then as a Republican.
When he retires at the end of next year, he will be one of several senior GOP senators bowing out of Congress after a tumultuous decade that saw the rise of the Tea Party, the…
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