I am in Rodney's district so I am interested in the possible repercussion angle of his Dem/Repub switch.
I have thought about the following
When he switched the Democrat party went berserk. He was of course frozen out by a lot of his former friend. Sen Mary Landrieu was livid with him.
Now what makes this interesting is that (1) he did pick up a weird opponent out of no where from Alexandria for this race. However Rodney has expressed some interest in running against Sen Landrieu in 08. At least he is exploring that option.
That gets you to thinking about the timing of this too
Also and maybe more important. His staff was very upset when he switched to (r). I think most resigned on him. If a current staffer was a tad too loose lipped around a former one well I suspect that might be how it got out. Needless to say Alexanders staff want say a word on this and thankfully Rodney is one of the few that is not National TV all the time as to this