February 1, 2009 - 09:39 pm
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Obama Picks Gregg, Another Republican Bastion Crumbles

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There is now every reason to believe that Judd Gregg, the third-term Republican senator from New Hampshire, will soon leave his seat to join Barack Obama's administration as Commerce secretary.

It seems equally clear that Gregg only agreed to the appointment after winning an assurance from New Hampshire's Democratic Governor, John Lynch, that his seat would be filled by a fellow Republican, thus preventing the Democrats from reaching the magical 60-seat mark in the Senate.

"Senator Gregg has assured me that if [his appointment] were to happen, it would not change the makeup of the Senate," Mitch McConnell, the Senate's Republican leader, said on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday.  read more »

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