It’s not a natural springboard to the Senate, but the position of
secretary of state may appear that way leading up to the 2014 midterms.
By this time next year, as many as four Senate nominees may list that
job at the top of their political résumés.
If Senate Democrats successfully recruit West Virginia’s
Natalie Tennant, each party would have two Senate candidates running in a
potentially competitive race who have served as secretary of state — a
position held by fewer than a dozen senators in the past century.