KIMBERLY STRASSEL looks at the Ford/Corker race: “The Democratic Party has been aware of its weaknesses on social issues and national defense for years, but with Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi in charge, it has refused to budge from a liberal stance that resonates mainly in New York and California. Mr. Ford has shown that voters elsewhere will respond to Democrats who aren’t afraid to really talk with them–and vote with them–on God and guns.”

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