| Since losing 30 seats and their 12-year stranglehold on power in 2006, House Republicans kept asking themselves the same question: Can it get any worse? With lots of help from Washington--including more than $1.3 million in campaign cash and a last-minute visit by Vice President Cheney--Mississippi Republicans are desperately trying to retain a congressional seat in one of the most reliably conservative districts in the nation |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.