I Disagree With Curt Weldon's Spokesman

From the 2006 May 24 edition of the Delaware County Daily Times:

Bush’s arrival comes as a poll— conducted earlier this month by the liberal-leaning Democracy Corps — shows 45 percent of 7th District voters supporting Sestak, a former Navy admiral, and 49 percent supporting Weldon, a 10-term incumbent and vice chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees.

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“This is the kind of stuff that is disgusting,” said Weldon spokesman John Tomaszewski. “I also find it hard to believe that those inflated numbers mean anything, considering the fact that good research shows that Mr. Sestak has very little name recognition in the district.”

Obviously any poll by an opaquely partisan organization should be taken with a grain of salt, but even so, Tomaszewski’s statement is dumb. A candidate with “little name recognition” trailing only by four-points (plus or minus the aforementioned grain of salt) before major campaigning begins indicates a big problem for a 10-term incumbent.