BILOXI, Miss. -- Roger Wicker leaned up against the rails of the oyster schooner Mike Sekul, enjoying the slight Mississippi Sound breeze and some scrumptious, bone-sucking ribs with his son McDaniel. This is the good part of being the newest member of the U.S. Senate, getting to ride along on a schooner race on the Gulf Coast. The bad part comes when Wicker makes port. Keeping his Senate seat will be a battle, something no incumbent senator from Mississippi has had to worry about in a generation. A couple of hours before he boarded the Mike Sekul, a state doctors association staged a publicity photo with Wicker, a Republican, and his Democratic opponent, former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove, each in boxing robes and holding up gloves in pre-fight pose. Republican Gov. Haley Barbour gave Wicker an 11-month head start as an incumbent,...
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