Could Senate Balance of Power Shift Again? As I speculated when I noted Jeffords’ switch below, “(t)he fragile balance of power could be further altered or even shifted back in the GOP’s

favor if another senator were to switch parties or forced to give up their seat in the

Senate.” ABC News has an improbably expansive list here considering nine other fence-sitters as well as the seats of the potentially indisposed Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, which would probably go to the Democrats.