this list<\/a> somehow or other. \u00c2\u00a0 The Republican honchos at Human Events compile their list of the “10” most vulnerable Republican Senate seats for 2008.\u00c2\u00a0 Which I would think is a relatively easy task — Virginia, New Hampshire, Colorado, New Mexico, Minnesota, Oregon, surely.\u00c2\u00a0 Alaska.\u00c2\u00a0 Maine… a bit skeptically, but we’re working to ten here.<\/p>\nKentucky is an interesting one, and in horse race terms, which is what all the bloggers seem to like to observe, the Republican Leader’s numbers have fallen below that magical 50 mark.\u00c2\u00a0 The Republican Party is sort of self-destructing there beneath McConnell, as the Weekly Standard noted recently — and as the Nation noted recently from a different direction.\u00c2\u00a0 Hence, it becomes that “hmmmm…”<\/p>\n
Number 10, I don’t know.\u00c2\u00a0 Nebraska?\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, why not?\u00c2\u00a0 Still.\u00c2\u00a0 Even though dearest Bob Kerrey, thank god, walked away from the challenge.\u00c2\u00a0 Do I think the Democrat has much of a chance?\u00c2\u00a0 No.\u00c2\u00a0 But we are talking ten seats here, and it’s a juggling act between this and all the others.\u00c2\u00a0 If you want to dash Maine out of the equation — the Democrats hope it is the image of Rhode Island who offed the popular Chafee for a Democrat, but the problem comes in the urgency isn’t there with a sure Democratic Senate (as opposed to possible if you off the Senator) and a likely Democratic president — you’d have to fish one out of North Carolina or the “netroots” dream of Texas or…<\/p>\n
Which brings me to the basic problem with this Human Events list.<\/p>\n
Idaho?\u00c2\u00a0 The Democratic candidate is pretty well set — Larry LaRocco who received 39.36 percent of the vote in a statewide race for Lieutenant Governor in 2006. \u00c2\u00a0 There’s a strong chance the Republican candidate will be Jim Risch — who received 58.29% in that exact same contest.\u00c2\u00a0 And at any rate, it’s not going to be Senator Bathroom Stall, who — I will give you this — would surely lose the race to LaRocco.\u00c2\u00a0 They saw the Senator Bathroom Stall, they didn’t quite notice that he would sooner or later disappear, leaving a state that is Idaho with a voting pattern that is Idaho.<\/p>\n
Wyoming?\u00c2\u00a0 Now this one is just lazy.\u00c2\u00a0 Really?\u00c2\u00a0 A quick google search shows me that the man who nearly won the at large House seat was recruited for this Senate seat, and has wisely decided to try again for that House seat.\u00c2\u00a0 The wiseacres at Human Events split the difference, saw this as a quasi-open seat — Barrasso having been appointed — and decided that makes it competitive.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t think there’s anything special about Barrasso, which makes him, but — Wyoming?<\/p>\n
That list thus becomes stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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