Washington Post Datelines CDA in Grant-Sali Race

Full story by Blaine Harden/Washington Post here

It is, perhaps, the political equivalent of hell freezing over in the interior West. This red state where conservative Republicans routinely wipe the floor with hapless Democrats has a Republican running for Congress who just might lose. Democrat Larry Grant’s rise has attracted the attention of national Democrats — and Republicans. The suddenly competitive race is a delicious development for Larry Grant, a Democratic candidate for the House who finds himself transformed from sacrificial lamb to reason for worry among national Republican strategists. His Republican opponent is Bill Sali, an eight-term state representative with a corrosive reputation for irking his fellow Republicans. The Republican speaker of the Idaho House, Bruce Newcomb, said this spring of Sali: “That idiot is just an absolute idiot.” With an impish smile, Grant, who was a high-tech executive in Boise, took a moment from knocking on residents’ doors here last week and said: “Can you imagine Republicans sitting around in Washington and saying to each other, ‘Jeez, now we have to spend — Blaine Harden /Washington Post.

Question: Do you think Sali will pull it out in the end?

Hat Tip: Dan of the County