Posted by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math
Stoller's comments deserve much greater treatment, but it is desperately important that the Democratic Party prepare for a negative campaign trashing Democratic ethics. I suspect Hillary's FEC settlement from the 2000 election, Pelosi's minor campaign issues (which were settled without further penalty), and every other ticky-tack infraction will be on the table. My armchair advice is to run a scorched-earth campaign, and run it early. If Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) goes down, he goes down. If a couple of others do to, there isn't much to do about it. But ethics needs to be primarily a Republican problem from day one. Counting on the press to do its job at this point is simply unrealistic.
