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CHRIS CILLIZZA The Monday Fix
In race to lead the RNC, prospects emerge from unsettled field U
ncertainty reigns in the race for the chairmanship of the Republican
National Committee despite the election being less than a month away. Conversations with a number
of strategists close to the RNC — and its 168 votingmembers — suggest that none of the six candidates in the running are anywhere close to securing the 85 votes needed to claimthe chairmanship. But two tiers of candidates
have begun to emerge, with the top three seen as potential winners and the bottomthree regarded as longer shots. Given the number of undecided voters and the unpredictability of the ballot process, though, it’s hard to count anyone out at the moment. Our handicapping of the field
at this point is below — ranked in order of likelihood of winning.
First tier 1. Reince Priebus. That the
Wisconsin state party chairman is the nominal front-runner to be the next RNC chairman speaks to the insularity of the committee and the relatively low-profile nature of all the candidates in the race — at least those not namedMichael Steele. Priebus has a good story to
tell, as Badger State Republicans won the governorship, defeated Sen. Russ Feingold (D) and picked up two House seats under his watch. He is also receiving help rallying votes froma number of influential committeemembers — includingMississippi committeeman Henry Barbour — and has themost public commitments so far. Priebus added the influential conservative JimBopp, an Indiana committeeman, to his side last week as well. 2. (tie) Saul Anuzis. Anuzis, a
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former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, is casting himself inmuch the same way he did when he ran for chairman back in 2009: a blue-state Republican whose knowledge of and comfort level with technology can help the party catch Democrats on that front. Earlier this week, Anuzis won the support ofMorton Blackwell, a Virginia committeeman and an influential voice among some conservatives on the RNC.
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House seats that states west of the Mississippi will gain in the 2012 cycle thanks to the 2010 Census and the decennial reapportionment process. That’s the largest share by far of the 12
seats shifting across states; the other four seats will be added to the Southeast. This also marks the first time that the population of theWest will exceed that of the Midwest, making it worth keeping an eye out as the delegations ofWestern states begin asserting their growing clout in Congress.
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Senate Republicans who crossed party lines to support ratification of the New START agreement last week. The treaty was ratified by a vote of 71 to 26. Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.)
voted against cloture but voted “yes” to ratification; Sen. John McCain (R- Ariz.), who was thought to be a possible “yes” vote, ultimately voted against both.
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House members who were missing in action on the final day of the 111th Congress lastWednesday. The previous day, about 80 members were MIA. The
number included retiring and defeated members as well as many who had simply skipped town for the holidays. Despite its depleted ranks, the House passed its final major piece of legislation for the year, a health-care bill for 9/11 first responders.
QUOTEOFTHEWEEK
THEBESTTHING THATHAPPENED TOREPUBLICANS The Democrats’ four- year reign in the House came to an end. The end of the
lame-duck session means Republicans will be in control next time the House convenes, giving the GOP a prominent seat at the table for at least the next two years. For good or ill, the Democrats accomplished a lot during their time with full control of the legislative and executive branches, and they did it largely without any GOP support. They passed a historic health-care bill, a stimulus package and financial regulatory reform. Republicans, who previously had to rely on the Senate filibuster to thwart Democrats, can now craft their own legislation and push their own priorities.
THEBESTTHING THATHAPPENED TODEMOCRATS President Obama got his mojo back. The president got many of his priorities passed in
the lame-duck session, and though he didn’t get everything he wanted (the DREAM Act or an end to the Bush tax cuts, most significantly), his ability to work out compromises was notable. Large amounts of Republicans wound up voting for the START pact and the 9/11 responders’ health-care bill, and even a few crossed over to support the repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for gays in the military. For a president recovering from a “shellacking” on Election Day, it was a solid rebound.
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2. (tie) AnnWagner.
Wagner’s resume is impressive — former chair of theMissouri Republican party, ambassador to Luxembourg — but what really recommends her to the committee and itsmembers is her fundraising capacity. In announcing his endorsement of her candidacy, former U.N. ambassador and potential 2012 presidential candidate John Bolton praisedWagner’s “long track record of raisingmoney and winning elections.” Wagner also has some history
with the RNC, having served as co-chair of the committee for several years in the early days of the Bush administration.
Second tier 4. Michael Steele.We’ve
written before about the difficulties the current chairman has in trying to win a second term. Steele has 12 announced backers and probably double that amount in overall support. The question is whether, after an obligatory vote for himon the first ballot,
those people stick with Steele for as long as he stays in the race or jump ship to another contender. Steele’s lone path to victory
appears to be a fractured final vote in which two other candidates split the anti- incumbent vote and allow him to shoot the gap. But that’s a thin thread on which to hang a second-termbid. 5. Maria Cino. Cino, who ran
the 2008 Republican National Convention and has served in a variety of high-level posts within the GOP, is the choice of a handful of well-known political operatives and pols. (Witness the fundraiser held in support of her candidacy by former vice president Dick Cheney and former RNC chairman Ed Gillespie.) Cino’s problemis that
political strategists don’t decide the identity of the chairman and the committeemen, and women who do vote don’t entirely like or trustmany of the establishment figures within the party. After eight
years of having their chairman picked for themby the George W. BushWhite House, it’s hard to see the 168 committee members bowing to the establishment’s will again. 6. Gentry Collins. The former
RNC political directormay be remembered as theman who effectively ended Steele’s chances at a second termby penning a resignation letter that detailed the fundraising (and other) foibles of the committee. But Collins has struggled to extricate himself fromthe Steele wreckage he helped cause with that letter. And, like Cino, Collins
struggles under the perception that he is just onemore professional political operative trying to tell the 168 committee members what to do. Collins’s grass-roots organizing abilities, which are considerable and important, couldmake himan attractive candidate, but he has yet to find a way to sell members on his potential.
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