The GOP didn’t win enough seats last Tuesday to take over the Senate, but that doesn’t mean that they have given up.
How many Blue Dogs are in play out there? I see that Manchin is the #1 target of the GOP, but Lieberman and Ben Nelson are also on their wish list.
Now for full disclosure; my link is from FOX and I did not get my coffee this morning, so I'm a little edgy today. But I didn't like what I was reading.
Republicans are making some big promises to try to lure West Virginia Senator-elect Joe Manchin to cross the aisle.
Aside from his pick of committee assignments (likely the Energy and Natural Resources Committee), Manchin might get support for one of his pet projects - a plant to convert coal to diesel fuel that has stalled under Democratic leadership in Washington.
Is there anything else that the GOP could promise? Would he get tea-bagged in a W.V. GOP primary?
Republicans believe Manchin is particularly susceptible to the overture because he is up for reelection in 2012 and will have to be on the ticket with President Obama, who is direly unpopular in West Virginia. Democrat Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Independent Joe Lieberman are the other two prime targets of Republican advances.
If Manchin, Nelson and Lieberman switched, it would leave the Senate in a 50-50 deadlock.
He ran away from Obama pretty hard in the general election. Was that all talk, or would/could he live in the GOP?
"He was elected as a Democrat and he has to go to Washington as a Democrat to try, in good faith, to make the changes in the party he campaigned on," said one Manchin advisor. "Now, if that doesn't work and Democrats aren't receptive, I don't know what possibilities that leaves open."
http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/...
What are the chances that a few dogs could run loose and flip the Senate?