MSNBC: The smart politics of the detainee vote helps democrats big time

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Did adroit Democratic candidates take away one of the GOP's best issues?

Brown, the Democrats’ Senate candidate in Ohio against Republican Sen. Mike DeWine, led all House Democrats in 2005 in the percentage of votes in which he opposed the president: 93.5 percent, according to Congressional Quarterly.

Brown is now appealing to voters beyond his own strongly Democratic district and needs to win over all Ohio voters since he’s in a tight race with DeWine. Brown explained his vote this way in an interview with MSNBC.com Thursday: "Unlike Mike DeWine, I'm willing to stand up to my party when they're wrong."

He said the detainees "are not soldiers, not combatants representing a government, these are terrorists."

He told reporters, “We’ve polled this extensively” and he argued that detainees and tribunals “are secondary issues to most people.”

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