Excellent.

We're going to get a filibuster-proof majority in 2008, and the Republicans won't know what hit them.

I'd call it a veto-proof majority, because I'm almost hopeful we'll get there, but since John McCain has a snowflake's chance in hell of winning the Presidency, I doubt we'll really need to worry about overriding any vetoes.

Wow!  Ok, I'll give the Clintonites credit that she might have positive coattails in this race... unfortunately, Lunsford is a Republican who switched to Democrat to try and get elected, so he would be the bluest of blue dogs, and not much of a progressive (if at all), but a Senate seat is a senate seat!

Republicans must be in REAL trouble!  Most right wingers are pretty happy with McConnel's obstructionist performance, but even Tom Coburn just had an article in the WSJ saying that Republicans are fooling themselves if they think they can so anything this year.  Let's try and win this one!

CQ has McConnell as "GOP favored" while Cook Report has his seat as "safe" for the GOP. If this is what safe looks like, I'd hate to be any GOP senator up for reelection this term...

Good Lord, do I hope the wonderful people of Kentucky pick Bruce Lunsford over Mitch McConnell.  I suppose this is the case of a ham sandwich with a D next to its name being better than McConnell, but there it is.  Admittedly, though, I do worry about some negative Obama coattails in Kentucky.  While I don't know much about the demographic composition of MS-1, it's certainly worth noting that Mississippi, unlike Kentucky, went for Obama by a large margin (61-37) and that Kentucky, unlike Mississippi, went for Clinton by a large margin (65-30).  One can't draw substantive conclusions from primary results and apply them to general election results, but one would think that Obama's result in Kentucky certainly doesn't HELP Lunsford should Obama be the nominee.  And I'm an Obama supporter.  But God help us if Lunsford pulls the kind of crap he did in the gubernatorial race (endorsing Ernie Fletcher over Ben Chandler after Lunsford lost his primary to Chandler) on the national level, and endorses McCain... although, I'm sure that if he were to do so, Chuck Schumer would literally strangle him.

Guys, nobody's taken a shot at Lunsford yet.  Let's just say the ads that McConnell's millions will buy will put those numbers back where common sense says they should be.  The only way for Lunsford to counter will be to sink millions of his own money into the race in what will be widely seen as an attempt to buy the seat (which is exactly what it will be).

Trust me, once the opposition takes a few swings at him, he'll fall back to a more realistic level.  Vencor is his albatross, and the stories that will come out of it will probably stun a lot of voters.

So it's possible to win, but these numbers aren't going to hold for long, and they will turn south very fast once the ads start airing.

Obama will kills Lunsford!

I still don't really like the fact that the unspoken rule against ousting the opposition's party's leader was broken with Daschle.  I wish sometimes we could lead by example and then the GOP would respect the decorum next time around but I know that isn't possible when you run against those that simply want power for the sake of power.