Democrats have solid chances of winning five seats, according to strategists in both parties and public polls, and realistic shots at picking off another three to five Republican senators. Republicans have only one good opportunity for replacing a Democrat, in Louisiana.
Nevertheless, NRSC Chairman John Ensign is getting optimistic:
Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., the GOP Senate campaign chief, says he'll be lucky if his party can hold its losses to two seats - a more optimistic assessment than just a few weeks ago, when he said the best case scenario would be four losses.
"I'm getting a little bit more optimistic," said Ensign.
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It's not not paying taxes billions of dollars of income; it is a shoebox that I spend a couple waking hours in. And, as I travel the state, I gotta tell you, people of Minnesota actually appreciate the fact that I live humbly as a Senator.
Yeah, very humble, Coleman. Humble and clearly inappropriate. I guess that since it's just an apartment and it's not billions of dollars, it's perfectly OK that Norm Coleman doesn't pay his monthly rent to his landlord (a friend and Republican operative whose wife Coleman employed), while countless Minnesotan families struggle with coming up with their monthly rents. In other news, Coleman's record on nuclear weapons is shamefully reckless.
Kentucky: Hillbilly Report reminds us that Mitch McConnell has declared himself "the strongest support of the President [George W. Bush] you could find in the Senate."
John McCain sent his buddies Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham, without the invitation of the Georgian government or the permission of ours. The President of Georgia, Misha Saakashvili requested Joe Biden.
Unless the Obama camp is actually going to plan a Convention-based announcement, we'll know this week. (This also begs the question, will John McCain announce his running mate this week or during the week of the Democratic National Convention in an attempt to diminish press coverage for the Convention?)
