I don’t know where I’m running now, I’m just running on
A reminder from DailyKos on Tuesday's special election for the most conservative House seat in Ohio:
In 2004, the Democrat running in OH-02 lost by 44 points. Tonight, the Democrat, Paul Hackett, lost by a mere 4 points.
Special elections are a special case, in that they're usually a lot closer than those on Election Day because they get more attention when nothing else is going on. But I can think of a couple other congressional special elections (the one Doris Matsui won in California earlier this year, and the one G.K. Butterfield won in North Carolina in 2004) that were always safe Democratic seats for the entire dull campaign. This should have been one of those cases, this time a safely Republican seat, which is in fact what everyone started off expecting. It helps that our candidate this time is a well-spoken Iraq War veteran, but it also helped that Democrats went after the seat aggressively. Here's hoping we get more of that for next year's midterms.
Also, I think "Running On Empty" is Jackson Browne's best song.