Why does anyone care about the results of this race?
Because it's interesting, purely to see how well a Democrat can do in a race that is so heavily conservative and traditionally Republican.
Um, a Democrat who doesn't even identify himself as a Democrat in his ads, and runs entirely on being an Iraq war "hawk."
He even ran Daschle-esque commercials linking himself to Bush.
Wasn't Hackett very crtical on the Iraq War and President Bush? At least that is what I remember seeing on the Nightly News piece they did on him.