Another campaign is quietly underway, which won’t kick in to full effect until after the election. Patrick Ruffini has a short writeup on the candidates to be the next chairman of the Republican National Committee. I’ll have more on this later, but it’s a good concise overview of who’s in the running.
Regardless of whether McCain wins or loses, this will be the more interesting race regarding who takes over the leadership of the two major political parties, because it will be the next RNC chairman’s job to rebuild and redefine the Republican Party in a post-Bush era after one (and potentially two) election drubbings and put together the political infrastructure for 2010 and 2012.