Race for Trent Lott's old seat competitive

GOP troubles in Mississippi could mean troubles throughout South Former senator Trent Lott, R-Miss., resigned one year into a six-year term, leaving his replacement, Roger Wicker to battle to keep the seat. 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... [read full story]