Nick Ayers Hearts Michael Steele's Monster Power Vacuum

Nick Ayers Hearts Michael Steele’s Monster Power Vacuum

While most people are focused on the 2010 Senate races-there is a 4% chance of a Republican takeover, according to America’s statistician boyfriend Nate Silver!-and on the fascinating specter of Sarah Palin’s potential wacky campaign (please God!) and on the hilarious destructive tailspin of the Republican National Committee under Michael Steele, not a lot of attention has been paid to the Republican Governors Association. Quietly, the RGA and its boy-honcho Nick Ayers have been raising big money and big dreams: they want to go from 22 Republican governors to 30. (There are 37 states this year; 19 are incumbent Democrats, 18 are incumbent Republicans. CQ has the prediction scorecard at 5 Republican gains and 2 Democrat gains; so, you know, 30 seems unlikely!) But it seems crazy to discount Nick Ayers and his 1181 Twitter followers and his attempt to rein in Sarah Palin back when she had a governing job and his bundler-scheming.