Senate, anyone?

While I've been busy blogging about most of the ongoing races, I sort of let it slip from my memory that there aren't any people running for Senate this year. It turns out that only 2 people submitted nomination forms, and as a result they automatically get seats. Currently, the available seats are being offered to this year's Senators. I'm quite frankly astonished by this practice- rather than opening up nominations again, they have decided to simply offer the seats to people who did not apply, and who could take the seats without actually going through an election.

[ hat tip to, and more analysis from The RBT]