The NRCC's tactics are brutal in any election year, but next year is going to be really special. Why? The census results were just released, which means that many states are going to have their congressional maps redrawn for the first time in 10 years -- and most of those maps will be drawn by Republican state legislatures to favor Republican candidates.
The NRCC is feeling emboldened, and they've made no secret of their plan to pull out all the stops to unseat Dean. They'll have a big pile of dark money to throw at this race, but Dean won't: He's counting on you.