This is just an additional issue that the next GOP nominee should include in his message to the voters.

Rockefeller had been the GOP nominee in the 1964 election.

Mead's mother was the GOP gubernatorial nominee in 1990.

Republicans hold 19 congressional seats, so presumably the GOP nominee could win a similar number of electoral votes.

It's sort of irrelevant, anyway, who the GOP nominee is.

A long primary process could give the eventual GOP nominee the same sort of energy that helped Obama surge forth four years ago.

This is a strong message and one we are likely to see a lot of if Romney is the GOP nominee.

There is nothing more important to a GOP nominee than the South.

No other Republicans filed in the race, making him the de facto GOP nominee.