You know the situation: Hackett vs. Schmidt, Hackett good and Schmitt bad, Hackett sane and Schmitt not, Schmitt favored and Hackett fighting uphill. This is the final push, and a couple bucks will help him push harder. Plus, you were just going to blow it on beer and hookers or something.
For those of you not particularly interested in Ohio 02, though, there's a second reason you should think about whipping out the wallet. The networks love electoral news. Love it. And, right now, there's none of it. If Hackett wins, a military vet, a Democrat in a solid-red district, it's going to be the story for awhile. And that means the story will feature a tough-talking Democrat who looks like a soldier, just returned from the war, and loudly, loudly stands up for our party and loves lashing out at Republican incompetence.
Hackett strikes at their strongest issue and shields our weakest. If Rove were a Democrat, this is the guy he'd run. And his win could, in fact, become one of those bellwether elections where the CW shifts and Democrats running against the Bush administration's Iraq policy become widely-acknowledged as deadly to the Republican majority. It happened in the 90's with Wofford in Pennsylvania, his special election win vaulted health care to the top of the agenda and left Republicans cowering in a corner. It can happen again.
But not if Hackett doesn't have the cash to win.
