Sunday TV

Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, will be on "Face the Nation" on CBS this Sunday to discuss the 2006 elections.

We wonder what he'll say about Ohio Sen. Mike DeWine's race against Democratic Rep. Sherrod Brown, especially considering a new USA Today/Gallup poll that shows DeWine down six points and a recent Wall Street Journal/Zogby poll that shows him down eight points.

Btw, we accidentally left McConnell off our earlier post about the "Best & Worst of Congress" list. His office pointed out the senator's TWO mentions on the Senate list in an e-mail to reporters. Here they are:

SENATE:

Best Leader
1. Harry Reid (D-Nev.)
2. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
3. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)
In a mostly party-line vote, Democrats unite around their soft-spoken, sharply partisan leader, while Republicans rally around their leader-in-waiting.

Workhorse
1. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.)
2. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.)
3. Tie: Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.); Carl Levin (D-Mich.)
The Democratic lion still roars after more than 40 years in Senate; Specter barely missed a beat during cancer treatment.