VOTE FOR S-H-E-L-L-E-Y-SPACE-S-E-K-U-L-A-SPACE-G-I-B-B-S

Those words show why it’s not going to be easy for Republicans to keep Tom DeLay’s old seat in Texas. But write-in candidate Shelley Sekula-Gibbs was once given up for dead, and now it looks like she might pull out a victory. Along with the old Mark Foley seat in Florida, this is another case where the knee-jerk Washington reaction about the race might be wrong. My new story is here .