The Washington Post’s “The Sleuth” column credited the ‘liberal blog” Swing State Project with raising the issue of Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s resistance to campaign for south Florida Democrats this afternoon (3/19). In fact, the Post went further, crediting SSP’s nickname of “Debbie Dubya” for making the issue stick. Kos’s support was mentioned as a sign that the issue had taken hold in the blogosphere.
Natch, the company town paper did say that it was customary for homestate congress critters to give their colleagues a break (known to us in the blogosphere as a free pass).
It certainly seems that this one hit pay dirt. Go get ’em, Mr. Van Hollen. The seat you take over will certainly be a Republican one. Wonder why the same group didn’t howl about the mid-term redistricting of Tom DeLay in Texas, the failure to count votes in Florida in 2000, or the outrageous Republican gerrymanders in so many states. They were rather sad, however, when moderate Republican Connie Morrella was replaced by upstart Democrat Chris Van Hollen. Poor, poor moderates.