Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows

Though that phrase doesn't usually refer to husband and wife opponents. Both are running for the "moderate party" nomination and the honor to get beaten by Melissa Bean in the Illinois 8th. Bean's probably pretty well invulnerable this time around (the GOP's best chance of unseating her was last year), and it says something about the district that the Moderate Party can take more than five percent in the general.

(h/t PJM)