The most exciting-- and to me, heartening-- political news of the moment isn't in Washington, D.C., New York, or Iraq: it's in Ohio's Second Congressional District, outside Cincinnati along the Ohio River, where Democrat and Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett faces Republican hack Jean Schmidt in a special election this Tuesday, August 2.
If elected, Hackett will be the first Iraq war veteran to enter the U.S. Congress.
The district voted for GWB last year,...
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