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EARLIER THIS week, Sen. Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) announced that, because of unspecified security threats, he had ordered his staff out of Washington and closed his Capitol Hill office until after the elections on Nov. 2. No one else, from D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams (D), who said he was "trying to figure out what frequency the senator is on," to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), who called the decision "a very strange aberration," could work out what, exactly, Mr. Dayton is so afraid of.
Because there has been no new homeland security intelligence since the last orange alert was raised in August, and because no one knows of a specific threat to Minnesota legislators, the explanation must lie elsewhere. Perhaps the senator has simply been overwhelmed by the dizzying spin and counter-spin coming from the presidential campaigns, the juggernaut of advertising and the partisan fever that has infected almost everyone on Capitol Hill. If that is the case, we feel his pain.
