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I went by early voting in Plantation a week or so before Election Day and bumped into U. S. Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Even thought she had a safe Democratic district and a nominal opponent, Wasserman Schultz wasn’t taking anything for granted. That’s Wasserman Schultz: Energetic, dedicated and filled with ability. With her flashy blonde Brillo hair and her articulate devotion to liberal causes, she is the Florida pol who drives conservatives batty. She’s the member of Congress that the Tea Party crowd loves to hate. And she is the most prominent Jewish pol in heavily-Jewish Florida. Now “Forward”, the...

WASHINGTON Rep. John Murtha, a key Democratic voice who favors pulling U.S. troops from Iraq, said in remarks airing on Monday that he would not join the U.S. military today. A decorated Vietnam combat veteran who retired as a colonel after 37 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, Murtha told ABC News' "Nightline" program that Iraq "absolutely" was a wrong war for President George W. Bush to have launched. "Would you join (the military) today?," he was asked in an interview taped on Friday. "No," replied Murtha of Pennsylvania, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives subcommittee that oversees...