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In the end, it wasn’t close. The 128 of the 129 delegates who voted rolled the dice, choosing a fresh face, a young face, to replace John Walsh as the Democratic Party’s nominee for the U.S. Senate. Walsh’s chances of winning were slim even before his plagiarism was exposed. Hers are slimmer.
Her first challenge? Resisting efforts to follow the same issues script that Walsh used — especially that part of the script that made him a debt and deficit scold worthy of Paul Ryan. Her guide on that issue should be Paul Krugman. The Walsh campaign embraced a Blue Dog economic plank in hopes of peeling off a few Republican voters who trembled at the size of the national debt, but possibly trembled more at the way their party treated women. Curtis must let the deficit scolds stew in their stockbrokers' offices while she stumps for jobs and rebuilding America.
She must also debate Daines. My recommendation: once a week, every week, starting after Labor Day.
Good luck to her. This will be an interesting experiment.