
Trent Lott just announced that he will be resigning his seat before the year is over. This is another blow to Republican Senate Leadership that has had a flurry of high ranking resignations this year. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour will appoint another Republican to fill Lott's seat, but it will be up for grabs in 2008 where the winner of that contest will finish the remaining 4 years of Lott's term.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Lott-Senate.html?ref=washington
Good riddance to bad
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
And with luck our candidate will be Mike Moore, the widely respected former attorney general -- this may be a rare chance to have a real Democrat representing the Deep South...