Archive for February, 2008

Democrats Concede Kentucky

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Lt. Col. Andrew Horne, the Democrats’ last hope to take down Sen. McConnell after they failed to recruit their bigger names, has shocked his Party by dropping out of the race, leaving the Democrats with unknown health care executive Bruce Lunsford.  The liberal blogosphere went out of its way to recruit Horne, hoping to exact […]

MSSC Sides With Barbour, Special Election Set for November

Monday, February 11th, 2008

During my absence, the big story was that the Mississippi Supreme Court sided with Gov. Haley Barbour in his decision to schedule the special election to fill the rest of former Sen. Trent Lott’s term in November on the same day as the Presidential election.  Conventional wisdom says that this favors Wicker.  In this case, though, […]

Happy New Year

Monday, February 4th, 2008

I will return next week after the Chinese New Year.  Somehow I think there might be a bit of non-Senate related political news that will keep you entertained for the next week.