Albeit inadvertently, the Republican Party finally has done something nice for Amy Tuck. With Rep. Chip Pickering's resignation, the outgoing lieutenant governor becomes a presumed frontrunner for the Third District seat that Pickering vacates.
Conventional wisdom assumed that Tuck, whom term limits prevented from seeking re-election this year, would be left on the outside looking in at the political world until Pickering ran for the U.S. Senate after Trent Lott or Thad Cochran call it quits. But with Cochran poised for one last campaign, that would've left Tuck out of a job until 2012 at the earliest.
If Tuck chooses to run and wins, then she'll have a five-year head start on that scenario and be in prime position for a Senate seat that, until today, was never a realistic possibility for her.
Indeed.
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