AL-Sen, MS-Sen: Making Races In The South

Quite possibly...at least in the blogsphere. Alabama Democrats are ready to oust Republican Jeff Sessions and bring a little of that Southern populism back to the Senate.

The Deep South is the last major stronghold of the Republican party at the moment. It's the only place they don't seem to be losing any ground. Alabama is the heart of Republican country. Democrats would normally just seek a pass here to move on to the more competitive states, but the blogsphere doesn't seem to want to let that happen.

I give you, SackSessions.com, a new blog "created to to assist in the electoral defeat of Sen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, III (R-Alabama.)"

Alabama Democrats are looking into the possibility of nominating the state's Alabama Agriculture and Industries Commissioner Ron Sparks, a Democrat who won a landslide reelection victory last year. Sparks are seriously considering a run against Sessions, which could sent the race into top or second tier, right where the Republicans wouldn't want Alabama. This, combined with the recent news that Karl Rove is worried about the possibility of Thad Cochran retiring in Mississippi, leading to a Democratic pickup opportunity is sure to get Senator Jon Ensign (R-Nevada,) the chair of the NRSC, heartburn.

The different between 2006 and 2008 is that the Democrats will have to play with a single person riding on the top of the ticket; their nominee for President. Let's seriously consider, as I always say we should when I talk about Congressional Races in 2008, exactly how Hillary Clinton is going to play in these states and how they may blow a good chance we may not have again in a while.