EJ Dionne has a column about the Senate Race in today's Washington Post.
His take:
That leaves the most interesting candidate, Alan Khazei. I'll confess a soft spot for the 48-year-old co-founder of City Year, one of the best youth service groups in the country.
The son of an Iranian-born surgeon and an Italian American nurse (Note to Alan: Make sure the Italians know about your mom), Khazei has been a crusader for the idea that all Americans owe something to their country.
He bugged and lobbied everybody (including columnists) until all the bills for AmeriCorps and other service programs were funded and passed, and bless him for it.
He's running as an Internet Age Jimmy Stewart, proposing "Big Citizenship instead of Big Government," a new approach "that isn't FDR or Reagan," and promising a campaign that is "citizen-led, citizen-energized and citizen-financed."
It sounds Obama-like and maybe a bit gimmicky. But Khazei actually believes the "Mr. Smith" stuff, and with the U.S. Senate looking as dysfunctional as the Celtics of the late 1990s, it may be the shrewdest approach on offer.
Niceties aside (I'm a Khazei fan), I'm not sure how anyone knocks out Coakley.
Doesn't a 3-guy field work enormously to her advantage?
