Source: Washington Post

I'm a little late on this one, perhaps because I still can't quite believe that the Republicans may actually get their much-deserved a**-whupping on Election Day. You know things are bad when the Republicans are pulling their money out of the Louisiana Senate race.

Little polling has been done in the state but until recently the two sides disagreed vehemently on Kennedy's chances. Democrats have long believed that Kennedy is less of a star than Republicans make him out to be and insisted that Landrieu would win comfortably. Republicans pushed back that the state was turning more conservative by the day and that the math simply didn't add up for Landrieu.

The NRSC's decision to pull their resources out of the state makes Kennedy's task significantly more difficult. Those familiar with the Kennedy campaign argue he will have enough resources to win the race but with Landrieu and the DSCC now pounding him on television it's hard to see how the NRSC's pull out as anything but bad news for Kennedy's chances.

As our stock market melts down, Alan Greenspan is finally and rightly vilified for being the free-market addict that he is. Perhaps this election cycle will start the re-evaluation of Karl Rove, who is said to have handpicked Kennedy for this race. Is Rove a political genius, as so many call him, or did he run the Republican Party into the ground in exchange for two (heavily contested) presidential terms?