From nems360.com:

The two wild cards in the 2011 statewide elections are Republican Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann and state Supreme Court Chief Justice William Waller Jr.

Their decisions will have a tremendous impact on the 2011 state elections.

The conventional wisdom is that Hosemann, a first-term secretary of state, will seek re-election, and, if he does, most believe he will cruise to victory. And that same conventional wisdom has Waller remaining in the lofty position of chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court – a position he assumed by virtue of being the longest-serving member of the high court with the defeat of then-incumbent Chief Justice Jim Smith in November 2008.

That is conventional wisdom, but there have been persistent rumors that both Waller and Hosemann might be eyeing bids for the top of the ticket for governor.

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