Senate race

Part of my thinking as to why I think Dean should be President is simply selfish... country selfish. I would hate to lose him in the Senate where he's a very senior member. Remember, we're going to start losing a lot of Dems there. Fritz Hollings, Bob Graham among them. And Dick Gephardt won't return to the House where he's also very senior.

Of course, on the wonderful news side, Zel Miller is going. Don't fail to allow the door to hit you on the way out, Zelster.

But seriously, we need to make gains in Congress even if we manage to get a Democratic president. I doubt we'll regain control of either the Senate or the House in 2004, but we need something closer to some effective balance. One party controlling just one of the two halves of Congress appears to be far less homicidal to mere mortal Americans than having the WH and both sections of Congress run by the same party. Yes, I'd say that even if the Democrats had control of all three. Not everyone's a Democrat, and not everyone's a Republican - some of us are neither, in fact - and we need balance.