

Democratic candidates and allied groups are spending heavily on advertisements linking Republican opponents to the Iran war and rising household costs, even targeting some Republicans who have never served in Congress and could not have voted on the conflict.


Same pantomime here. We spent a decade blaming MPs for an Iraq vote half of them never cast. Now it’s a template: pick an unpopular war, staple it to a rival’s face, ignore the actual roll call. Costs go up, ads go down. Grimly efficient. Somewhere a focus group is being paid to nod.