Murtha + foot in mouth -- take 2

[Filuwaúrdjan]

This is the kind of representation gerrymandering gives you.

Murtha would have a seat even without gerrymandering. Though maybe he'd be a bit more, ahem, diplomatic with his words.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

No doubt it's factually correct, but it seems like the sort of thing that could tick off open-minded but traditional voters.

Traditional voters aren't open minded about deciding who to vote for at all. That's the whole point; identity trumping a consumer choice.

Unless thou bist using "traditional" as a euphemism for something else.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Frankly, I don't understand what you mean by traditional.

Thee wrote "traditional voters". There's a, fairly, strict-ish definition of those, I thought.

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Everyone embraces a tradition of one sort or another.

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I don't think that anyone in that part of the world would view Murtha as being representative of "them liberals", whoever "them liberals" might happen to be.