Monday's
Bob Novak column on Trent Lott's (probable) retirement is pretty interesting. He says that:
"Lott's retirement and replacement could signal that Southern political realignment has peaked and now is receding.
"Mississippi, one of the reddest of the red Republican states, has not even been on the game board of the Washington analysis forecasting the 2006 Senate outcome. But in Mississippi, prominent Republicans are worried sick. They believe Lott will probably retire. If so, they expect the new senator will be a Democrat, former State Attorney General Mike Moore. Republican politicians in Mississippi believe Rep. Chip Pickering, the likely Republican nominee if Lott does not run, cannot defeat Moore."
Awesome!