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1. Wayne

   Keep reading down into the comments, an interesting counter point is made:

   From a related post by Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com
   http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/01/gregg-poison-pill-for-democrats.html

   — Benefits to Democrats might be small:

   1a) Gregg was voting with the Democrats reasonably often anyway;

   1b) His replacement, conversely, would likely be someone fairly moderate who wouldn’t vote with the Democrats 100% of the time;

   2) Gregg, who has been a pretty reliable fiscal conservative, would presumably have at least some influence shaping policy from the Commerce Department;

   3) The perceived benefit to the Democrats from getting a 60th seat is greater than the real one, increasing the risk that they will be seen as overreaching by the time that 2010 rolls around.

   This site fivethirtyeight.com has some brilliant dialog, including the reader commentary, which lacks the usual name calling that takes place at many blogs.

   1:28 PM on 1/30/09