For those whose attention has wandered from the long march of Michael Dukakis and George Bush, Cato commends a real race—and one whose denouement may turn out to be second in importance only to the out-come of the presidential contest itself.
It is the scramble to succeed West Virginia’s Robert Byrd, the man who, for the past 11 years, has served as parliamentary ringmaster of the Senate Democrats. If the Democrats maintain their Senate majority in the fall elections, as expected, one of the three senators vying to succeed him will become the Senate Majority Leader. As such, this man would be in a position to lead his troops into battle against a President Bush, or to make life either pleasant or unbearable for a President Dukakis.
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