The battle for the Senate won’t be decided until the January run-offs in Georgia, and yet the inevitability of a razor-thin majority means that the stock of the moderate Manchins and Murkowskis is already going through the roof.
A clutch of Republican moderates — Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, Maine’s Susan M. Collins and Utah’s Mitt Romney — appear poised to wield outsized power if the Alaska seat goes as expected to Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, and just one of the two Georgia seats stays red. Read More…