[Still Thinking]

A McCain win DOES NOT MEAN ANOTHER REPUBLICAN SEAT. The sonofabitch votes with the Democrats a good 75% of the time. Stop kidding yourself that putting McCain back in Congress will do ANYTHING for the Republicans other than f__king them over yet again.

In one sense, and AFAIK only one, it does. He counts as a Republican for purposes of determining who's the majority party (course if it ends up so wobbly one member makes he difference, I'm sure he pulls a Jeffords), and the majority party selects committee chairs and gets majority representation in committees. So he's truly a "Republican In Name Only" and yet that actually matters!

[supercat]

...and the majority party selects committee chairs and gets majority representation in committees.

If his is the vote that determines which party holds the majority, do you think he'll allow Republicans to fill the chairs, or will he insist that they be filled with RINOs?