[HostileTerritory]

I think it's a tough gambit to pull off, and it helped that the dead woman was lionized in the media and out of the picture instead of being controversial and still very much with us.

But it may be what they have to do, if the appeal goes nowhere.

I suspect that Lampson might be easier to knock off in 2008 than in 2006, because a Presidential vote will bring out a lot of voters who don't involve themselves in politics beyond party ID and won't know Lampson from Ted Kennedy. And because we'll have a strong standard bearer.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"I suspect that Lampson might be easier to knock off in 2008 than in 2006, because a Presidential vote will bring out a lot of voters who don't involve themselves in politics beyond party ID and won't know Lampson from Ted Kennedy. And because we'll have a strong standard bearer."

---

True, but he'd be the incumbent, and you know the media would be highlighting his occasional "conservative" votes. An incumbent Democrat is not easy to beat in Texas, unless you give him a completely different district.