Yes, I seem to recall Murphy won with something like 50.2%. Very, very close, as your numbers demonstrated.
Just ran the numbers, I was a bit off. Murphy won by 1521 votes out of 249,813. That’s 50.3% vs. 49.7%.
But Murphy has a big lead in money raised, something like 5-to-1. He’s gotten tons of money from lawyers and unions, naturally. He got a lot of cash from moveon.org in 2006, not sure about this time.
Murphy ran as an anti-war Murtha-lite defeatist, and fought the surge at every opportunity. That won’t help him as much this time.
Let us hope McCain has some long coatails.