I don’t know, but there may be enough evidence and resulting unease to secure another run-off, if the political pressure mounts. And let the NRSC and the US Chamber of Commerce come right out up front and use money donated by Republicans to court liberal Democrat voters then. That’d be a hoot to watch, don’t you think? (thanks to DarthLevin)

Via Mark Levin:  1/3 of the money spent in primaries against conservatives / constitutionalists / TEA Party candidates has been spent by the US Chamber of Commerce. Establishment Republicanism and corporatism go hand in glove, it seems.  Though today it doesn’t wear the same name as it did when, say, Mussolini was all into it.  Probably because today it wears an American flag pin on its lapel.

I wrote this originally to Adjoran and Dana in the comments to TOM’s post on Cochran’s “victory,” but I want it placed here for the record. Adjoran wrote: Seems to me Cochran WAS as good as buried, but somebody dropped the ball. Somebody tried to play dirty, and it blew up on them. It’s a bit late for that side to complain about rough politics. This is, of course, the

  The single thing keeping this Tweet from being an utter, crystalized bit of metaphysical perfection is that the number turned out to be 45, and not — as Douglas Adams would have had it — 42.  Which to someone of my mindset is a crying shame.  But it is what it is. (h/t TOM)

— Although surprisingly, they did so without citing the emission of CO2 as the reason — though I haven’t yet checked if John Roberts, after much deliberation, was unable to declare the unconstitutional recess appointments a tax, and so found his hand forced. In other words, I don’t much care anymore what the Supreme Court says, save for Thomas, Alito, and on many (but not all) occasions, Scalia. But some