Hall-Long defeated Marino by 1 percentage point in 2014.
"The Long Defeat," by David Brooks (column, March 25), reminds us of the damage being done to the Democrats' election prospects in November by the sniping between the Clinton and Obama campaigns.
Gretchen Simon Bala Cynwyd, Pa., March 25 , 2008 To the Editor: I rarely agree with David Brooks, but in "The Long Defeat" he articulated what has been most troubling to me about Hillary Rodham Clinton and her campaign.
As part of the long defeat that spread through the 70s and 80s, the left allowed idealism to be appropriated by its enemies, and look where it got us.
Michael Kolb Newburgh, N.Y., March 25 , 2008 To the Editor: Re "Hillary or Nobody?," by Maureen Dowd (column, March 26), and "The Long Defeat," by David Brooks (column, March 25): Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton really wants to win the nomination.
The author of Ripley Bogle and Eureka Street, which the BBC later adopted into a television drama, had described Queen's University's decision last month to cancel the symposium as "not cowardice or surrender but part of one long defeat in an unfought war".
The other day, as I looked down on the field of cubicles from the "resting area" on the balcony, I felt an urge to read aloud from a Graham Greene story I had disregarded in my 20s: "Are you prepared for the years of effort, 'the long defeat of doing nothing well'?
As pleasing as ballot box victories are, I see no reason for the long defeat to reverse, at least not in my lifetime.
A quick aside: David Brooks' piece, "The Long Defeat" in the New York Times, today was dead on.
It is not a long defeat, but instead the great opportunity of a species, the chance to save the world.
