Haley Barbour is running for President. He is very qualified to be our President. However, if the GOP wants to prove that we have a big tent, that we have moved into the 21st Century, that we are open to minorities, women and all...we can do much, much better than Haley Barbour.
Please do not be fooled by Mitt Romney's endorsement of Bob Bennett. This was a pay back. Bennett was Romney's liaison in the US Senate. Mitt owed him a favor.
One thing I did today was research what the GOP chances are of getting back a majority in the Senate. The 2010 election does indeed have the potential to be the most dramatic campaign in the history of the US Senate. A lot of seats could change hands. There are just two juicy possibilities for the GOP that have me excited. One is the election in Hawaii, where the very popular GOP governor could take a seat long held by democrat Daniel Inouye. The seat once held by Secretary Clinton could go republican, and the seat once held by President Obama could go republican. On the other side of the coin, Kit Bond is retiring and will likely be replaced by a democrat. And Jim Bunning is a long shot at getting re-elected. The best case scenario for the GOP is to gain 6 seats. The best case scenario for the demorcrats is to gain 6 seats. The most likely scenario is that the GOP picks up 2 seats. Why, this is an election year for class III. And the republicans are still a majority in class III. I think the GOP realistically can get back the majority in the Senate in 2014, when the 8 new democrats that were elected this year are up for re-election. This is especially true if the White House house is then occupied by a Republican.
More Americans are independant than are affiliated with a party. We are likely to see the majority party in congress swing wildly for the foreseeable future.
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