Friday was Dino Rossi’s 51st birthday. Perhaps it’s fate that in less than 3 weeks he could very well become the 51st Republican in the Senate by defeating incumbent Sen. Patty Murray (D). As Politico reports, it now appears that Rossi holds the key to the GOP’s hopes of taking back the Senate. And Rossi’s campaign believes that victory is well within its grasp.

“Tracking has us ahead,” a campaign aide writes in an e-mail obtained by BATTLE ‘10. “In the immortal words of Winston Churchill: ‘Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.’”