I would not put Murkowski or Thune under...Thune will likely win and Murkowski will benefit if Bush wins >300 electoral votes due to some coat-tails.
"I would not put Murkowski or Thune under...Thune will likely win and Murkowski will benefit if Bush wins >300 electoral votes due to some coat-tails."
Agreed. If Bush is able to clinch some battleground states early, that will depress the Dem turnout in states in Mountain and Pacific time zones. That will definitely work to the advantage of Murkowski and Coors, and possibly Thune to some extent.
Thune must win this time by enough of a margin to make irrelevant the shenanigans of late-arriving Reservation ballots. It probably cost him a rightful victory last time.
Though if if works out that Thune does knock the insufferable Daschle out, then it will have turned out to be a good thing. I mean, it'd be nice to be rid of them both, but Johnson is preferable to Daschle.