Gerlach and Shays both ran against the tide because the dems ran in two consecutive elections backward candidates.
The voters sent a message we didn't like them the first time. Lois Murphy and Farrell couldn't do better than they did in 04 with a much better enviornment which shows you how bad they were as candidates.
My E-mail records show that I sent information about MoveOn.org's hate speech to both Shays and Drake. I can't see anything to the effect that they used it as Gerlach did, though. Do you know if Shays or Drake tried to connect their opponents to MoveOn's hate speech?