[.cnI redruM]

Shays has often been a pleasant surprise. People see GOP and New England together and instantly have bad acid flashbacks to Lincoln "The Missing Linc" Chaffee. Shays does do what he can do.

He wins in a district that really has a hard time deciding whether it should support Lieberman or Lamont. He also supports the troops. He must have the contortion ability of an escape artist.

[CedarDave]

Heather won by about 800 votes after ten-days of waiting the the Rats trying to pull a Florida by counting every challenged vote. She is independent of the White House and has been critical of our policies in Iraq, telling her concerns directly to the White House. But she is also a veteran and an Air Force Academy graduate. She may not agree with specifics of our policy but understands the signals such a resolution sends to the radicals in Iraq and elsewhere in the middle east.