RNC election tomorrow will be forecast for the future of the party

Politico has the scoop.
Like it's counterparts in the DNC, the Republican National Committee does not neccessarily dictate policy, but instead hones the message of the parties senior leadership and collects money for field operations and is basically the apparatus of the Republican movement on it's most public scale.
The Chairman is an important position, besides carrying water for senior leaders, the chairman makes key decisions of where to appropriate funds, and communicates the central message of the party to the Republican grassroots and works with state and local party leaders to register voters, fundraise, and collectively organize within all units of the party to oppose the Democrats and inform voters through mail, the web, phonebanking and advertising.
Mike Duncan, the current chair of the RNC, is still the favorite to win, despite losing both a higher margin in congress as well the white house last year, a lot of his supporters think that, without an unpopular president and wide voter disapproval, they can begin to rebrand the party in a way that will be more appealing to voters and hopefully restructure their new message around central Republican values such as lower taxes and smaller government in the face of a massive federal spending measure that was just passed by Democrats in congress last night.
Voting for Committee chair is a very political process, more similar to a caucus or a convention rather than a secret ballot, and the results are only official after a candidate receives a plurality of 85 votes, which means that there are often more than one, perhaps as many as a dozen ballots. The voting also usually has a lot more to do with favors owed and promises made then actual policy positions.
The GOP is badly in need of an overhaul right now if it plans on staying relevent, and whoever wins tomorrow will have a large responsibility to lead them out of the wilderness and also have a focused agenda to give them a more powerful voice in Washington once again.