Seven Ways to Make Voters Forget You’re a Democrat

Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) brags in a commercial that he voted against “Nancy Pelosi’s energy tax on Hoosier families.” Other Democrats from Appalachia, which produces coal, and the Midwest, which uses it to generate most of its electricity, have hit on the same theme.

Rep. Chet Edwards (D-Texas), whose district includes George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, goes after both of Obama’s top domestic issues, as well as Nancy Pelosi, in just one short TV commercial. “When President Obama and Nancy Pelosi pressured Chet Edwards,” says the narrator in dramatic fashion, “Chet stood up to them, and voted no against their trillion-dollar health-care bill and no to cap-and-trade.”