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August 11th, 2005

School’s Out- Forever?

Stuart Rothenberg, more so than progressive blogosphere, learns some wrong lessons from Paul Hackett’s near victory in today’s subscription-only Roll Call.

Rothenberg underestimates the number of Republicans electorally vulnerable on the grounds of questionable ethics (as you’ll recall, the DSCC spent a lot of time trying to tie Schmidt to the scandal-plagued governor Bob Taft). When the media has covered GOP corruption, they’ve focused on the big guys, but there’s really a lot more to be found at the state level. There’s the New Hampshire-RNC phone-jamming scam, the Walmart-Ehrlich payola deal, and the Montana-Conrad Burns Abramoff dealings, for example.

Perhaps Stu should chat with Robby on what we actually should be learning from the Hackett race.

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