Politically, Our Next Big Thing
By GAIL COLLINS, NYT
It is time to start thinking about running for the U.S. Senate. Allow me to explain.
There are no major Congressional elections this fall, except that one lone Senate special election in New Jersey, where Cory Booker is facing The Person Running Against Cory Booker. We need to look forward to 2014. There are already some exciting races shaping up, like the one in Kentucky where Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is battling for his survival with the help of a campaign manager who admits having said he was “sort of holding my nose” to stay in McConnell’s corner.
And we really cannot get enough of the Wyoming Republican Senate primary, where incumbent Mike Enzi is being challenged by Dick Cheney’s daughter Liz. When we last checked, Cheney was engulfed in a major controversy about whether she had lived in Wyoming long enough to qualify for a resident’s fishing license.
And then there are other states where nobody is running at all. For instance, Democratic Senator Tim Johnson is retiring in South Dakota, and his party seems to be having a hell of a time just finding a serious nominee. (Democratic position: “We are aggressively recruiting in South Dakota and plan on being competitive there.”)
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It is time to start thinking about running for the U.S. Senate. Allow me to explain.
There are no major Congressional elections this fall, except that one lone Senate special election in New Jersey, where Cory Booker is facing The Person Running Against Cory Booker. We need to look forward to 2014. There are already some exciting races shaping up, like the one in Kentucky where Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is battling for his survival with the help of a campaign manager who admits having said he was “sort of holding my nose” to stay in McConnell’s corner.
And we really cannot get enough of the Wyoming Republican Senate primary, where incumbent Mike Enzi is being challenged by Dick Cheney’s daughter Liz. When we last checked, Cheney was engulfed in a major controversy about whether she had lived in Wyoming long enough to qualify for a resident’s fishing license.
And then there are other states where nobody is running at all. For instance, Democratic Senator Tim Johnson is retiring in South Dakota, and his party seems to be having a hell of a time just finding a serious nominee. (Democratic position: “We are aggressively recruiting in South Dakota and plan on being competitive there.”)
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