Aside from all of the controversies swirling around President Obama, the Justice Department, the Internal Revenue Service, and the intelligence community, the top political question these days is whether Republicans really have a good shot at picking up a U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts in the June 25 special election. Special elections, with low voter turnout, are often highly volatile and difficult to predict, and this introduces an element of uncertainty where normal rules of thumb usually don’t apply. [cont.]
Charlie Cook