Will Senate Dems torpedo a plan for nonpartisan election officials?

Few things make my blood boil quite like Democrats dealing away American democracy for some small electoral advantage.

Here's a potential example* -- something to watch -- from The Hill …

Congressional Democrats, including those with executive-branch aspirations, may offer significant resistance to a Democratic bill that would affect how presidential campaigns operate in 2008.

Rep. Susan Davis (D-Calif.) introduced legislation that would control and prevent chief state elections officials from actively participating in federal campaigns, responding to the involvement of the Florida and Ohio secretaries of state -- former Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) and Ken Blackwell, respectively -- in the Bush presidential campaigns of 2000 and 2004. However, with Democrats acquiring a majority of statehouses after the recent midterm elections, including those in several battleground states, some party members may object to, or undercut, the legislation before the 2008 races.