Don't wait for fallout from Vietnam lie; I'll be fatal
(NEWSER) - Richard Blumenthal, until yesterday the frontrunner for Chris Dodd's Connecticut Senate seat, is toast, and the sooner Democrats recognize it the better, Nate Silver writes. You may be able to cheat on your wife and get away with it, he argues at FiveThirtyEight , but you can't cheat on your Vietnam War record—or lack of same—and expect voters to trust you. Especially if you're attorney general, "a position which is supposed to connote trustworthiness, precision, and law-abidance." More»
