Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr., in a column on Pennsylvnia’s Patrick Murphy, a 33-year-old Democrat, Iraq war veteran and son of a policeman who is trying to take the congressional seat held by Republican Michael Fitzpatrick.
And Patrick Murphy is closing with an advertisement saying that when it comes to Iraq, his opponent and President Bush “have no idea how to fix this mess.” He adds: “Now you get to decide if they’re getting it right in Iraq and here at home.”
If that’s the question voters decide to answer on Tuesday, Democrats will have a very good night. Watch carefully: Everything the Republicans do between now and Election Day will be designed to change the question.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.