Paul Hackett’s narrow loss in Tuesday's special election in Ohio’s 2nd district is a clear-cut case study in the current state of American politics. But more importantly, it is evidence of the average American’s growing distrust of a business-as-usual approach to the war in Iraq.
Over-simplifying politics can be a meaningless pursuit – the territory of TV news pundits and partisan hacks. But it’s hard to resist looking at the Hackett-Schmidt race in black and white terms. In a district...
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