If there's a 'must-read' today…

…for the voters of any state with a US Senate race this year, it's Harold Myerson in the WaPo...

It matters not a damn whom Lincoln Chafee chose to support for president. His vote was one of roughly 435,000 cast in Rhode Island in the 2004 presidential election, and roughly 122 million cast nationwide. The election in which his vote did matter was that for majority leader of the Senate. There, he was one of just 100 electors, in a Senate nearly evenly divided. After this November's elections, control of the Senate may well hang by a single vote...

..."Moderate," after all, is only an adjective; "Republican" is a noun. Chafee, Snowe, the whole lot of them, are moderate enablers of an extremist party.

Mike!, too, if you buy his born-again good guy pose. Every vote for any Republican is a vote for the Republican leadership and their "gorge-the-rich, drown-the-poor, stay-the-course Republicanism."

Of course, it's true in the House, too.

That's why…