His name haunts the race. Many people worry that Blunt or Boehner will win the election, and then some awful shoe will drop. Someone was just reminding me that Livingston hadn’t formally taken office yet, so his stepping aside was relatively easy. In this case, whoever it is will be elected and if something hits after that, there will be agonizing for weeks and months about whether he should step aside or not. That’s the disaster scenario that’s on some minds.