HIX NIX POLITICAL TRIX: “Well, look, it’s not exactly out of bounds to leap on embarrassing fumbles of one’s opponents, but one has to do so honestly. It was neither Raese nor the NRSC that asked for ‘hicky’ actors, or actors from Philadelphia, either. In fact, both the Huffington Post and Greg Sargent agree that this is much ado about nothing. . . . Manchin, of course, can focus on whatever he wants in his campaign advertising. But Manchin runs the risk of losing the one weapon in his political career that put him in position to run in this race, which was his enormous bipartisan approval, if he continues using such a dishonest, superficial, and easily rebutted line of attack as this one.”