Best way to stop Palin? Looks like Bachmann might take care of that.

[Poundingtherock]

Phil,

It seems a little desperate to rely on Michele Bachmann.  If backbencher Bachmann's all you got, well, I may be understating Palin's victory margin.

I don't think Bachmann is looking at a Senate run.  She'd be crazy to think she can win against Klobuchar MN without a third-party liberal helping her out.  That state is as far-left as people make it out to be notwithstanding the fluke wins from Pawlenty earlier this decade that really only happened because of a third-party.

The better bet is that Pawlenty and Romney are trying one last ditch effort with Bachmann because Huckabee and Pence aren't cooperating as neither of these two tools are running.

[Poundingtherock]

They do.  I believe they've known each other for awhile when they were both mediocre legislators.

[Poundingtherock]

I'm not a big fan of Cook's PVI.  It doesn't take into consideration enough that on the presidential level, that democrats often vote for the republican and vice versa.

I should have made clear that I meant Minnesota was more liberal than it seemed on the presidential level and statewide.  I think Bush did as well as a republican can do in 2004 in a presidential election.  When 48% is your ceiling in a really good year for Republicans, we pretty much have no shot when it's even without a third-party.