Looks like Reid has made his picks

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They should have made each party pick the others representatives.

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I hate to be "that guy" but did anyone notice anything about ALL the Republican picks?

Did you know that Pat Toomey is a member of the Congressional Hispanic Conference?

Probably not.

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Yeah, who needs ethnic identification when we can use outdated racial theories to categorize ourselves.

Anyway, Clyburn clearly wins the best tie award.

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I hate to be "that guy" but did anyone notice anything about ALL the Republican picks?

Did you know that Pat Toomey is a member of the Congressional Hispanic Conference?

Probably not.

And your point is...

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Yeah, who needs ethnic identification when we can use outdated racial theories to categorize ourselves.

99% of Portuguese Americans do NOT identify themselves as Hispanic.  I guess the Republicans found the one half Portuguese (on his mother's side) white guy that was willing to use the moniker (for reasons we can only imagine) and use him as their token.  The fact that this is what passes for diversity in your caucus speaks volumes.

If you were to go to Portugal they would call this guy a white guy.  Trust me the Portuguese do not call themselves Hispanic.  But here in America Republicans would call him an underrepresented minority.

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You assume I know that he's Portuguese instead of Hispanic. I didn't know that and I don't care. I was responding to your ridiculous fetishization of race.

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Sometimes the NOMINATE scores are off, but in this case they seem relatively accurate (except I'd say Hensarling might accept a compromise a little sooner than Toomey, but both have pretty close scores anyway). While the ideology of each body on the Dem side matches with those bodies members (House to the left of the Senate near the peak frequencies), the Republican Senators on the other hand are to the right on average of those from the House.

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As to the Toomey thing, yes he has some talent, and is a pleasant and articulate chap, but he will have to be very persuasive indeed, or the environment right when he runs for re-election, since it appears he is substantially more conservative in his views than PA is overall. To get it done, he may have to establish himself as having some "plus factor" so he holds votes that might stray due to his ideology. Or PA needs to lose its somewhat small but clearly present, Dem tinged PVI.  That is going to be tough, unless the Philly metro area stops trending Dem.

Well, first, Santorum was well to the right of Pennsylvania, and got re-elected once. 

Second, the state has been possibly drifting a bit rightward in the past two years.  One thing is that PA is  probably a pro-choice state, and Toomey does not emphasize that aspect in the same way Santorum did.

Third, there is no other Bob Casey, Junior out there and the strongest candidate is Rendell.  Rendell is not exceptionally popular.

I've had the impression that PA is relatively pro-life. At least, the most pro-life of any Dem PVI state.  That seems to be the case when you consider all the pro-life Democratic politicians, with only Specter standing out as a pro-choice Republican. I wouldn't expect being pro-life to be a liability in most of the state.