TPM Reader DF is seeing the same thing in Indiana ...

To echo your point on "the closer"

Here in the hotly contested IN 9th, I received a slick, heavy card-stock letter-sized mailing from the DCCC accusing Sodrel (the Republican) of attempting to raise taxes on the working man. I was flabbergasted at how weak and ineffectual this expensive mailing was. Sodrel is a rubber stamp for Bush. He is a “stay the course” guy. He hemmed and hawed on Social Security reform. Did I mention he’s a rubber stamp for Bush? Even if the DCCC mailer is technically correct, who freaking cares? It was beyond lame. It physically hurt me.

The Republicans have a hematoma under their right eye called Iraq, and one under the left called Bush. Keep punching those damn things!

It is a little painful.