Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here. Leading Off: ' GA-Sen: We've already mentioned Rep. Tom Price as a possible GOP primary challenger to Sen. Saxby Chambliss a couple of times, but Roll Call's Joshua Miller runs through a whole bunch of other potential contenders in Georgia's congressional delegation as well. Paul Broun isn't ruling out a run, and Tom Graves declined to comment, but Lynn Westmoreland, Jack Kingston, and Phil Gingrey are all basically saying no (though Gingrey had previously looked unlikely).
Also intriguing is a new report in the Weekly Standard which says that former Secretary of State Karen Handel might make a bid as well. Election junkies will recall Handel from her 2010 gubernatorial bid, when she narrowly lost the Republican nomination to ex-Rep. Nathan Deal in a runoff by four tenths of a percent (after taking first place in the opening round).
And those of you who follow developments in the war on women certainly haven't forgotten Handel's notorious role in cutting off funding for Planned Parenthood as vice president for public policy at Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Of course, the very actions which made her a demon in the eyes of those who value the kinds of services PP provides (like breast cancer screenings) will only help to burnish her conservative credentials if she makes another run for office.
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