Harold Meyerson writes that moribund Democrats showed surprising signs of life in yesterday’s elections:
For a party presumably at death’s door, the Democrats had themselves a pretty fair election yesterday, while liberal and labor Democrats, had an altogether bang-up time.
The Democrats held John Murtha’s southwest Pennsylvania house seat in exactly the kind of white working class district that is supposed to be trending Republican this year. Voters ousted the exquisitely vulnerable Arlen Specter — an avowedly careerist incumbent in an anti-incumbent year — in favor of a far fresher face, Joe Sestak, who also has a better chance than Specter come November.