Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Dispatch from Indiana's "Bloody 8th"

Today NPR's Morning Edition featured a report from Indiana's Eighth Congressional District, where I used to live. This Southwest district of a Very Red state has been so hotly contested in recent years it earned the name the "Bloody 8th." Linda Wertheimer profiles the race between Republican incumbent John Hostettler and Democratic challenger Brad Ellsworth, mayor of Evansville. It looks like in Indiana, like elsewhere in the country, the Dems are running on a platform of "We're not to blame for the mess; vote for us instead." Still, Hostettler must be running scared from the sounds of the tacky smear ad he's airing against Ellsworth.

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