These 3 Democrats prove the folly of not admitting your mistakes

Wendy Davis, Alison Lundergan Grimes, and Mark Udall all erred in recent weeks. If only they could admit it.

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Can a politician ever truly admit error? These days, it seems like you're more likely to win the lottery or see lightning strike the same place twice. And in the middle of a heated campaign? You might as well ask to see unicorns romping through Washington, D.C.

There are, of course, plenty of opportunities for corrections and apologies. Indeed, the looming midterm elections have given us at least three in the past couple of weeks — a strategic mistake, a poor extemporaneous answer to a debate question, and a deliberate choice in a campaign ad. Given enough time, you could probably come up with volumes of such examples of mistakes, but the acknowledgements of such would barely fill a brochure, and the apologies a postcard.

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Edward Morrissey

Edward Morrissey has been writing about politics since 2003 in his blog, Captain's Quarters, and now writes for HotAir.com. His columns have appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Post, The New York Sun, the Washington Times, and other newspapers. Morrissey has a daily Internet talk show on politics and culture at Hot Air. Since 2004, Morrissey has had a weekend talk radio show in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area and often fills in as a guest on Salem Radio Network's nationally-syndicated shows. He lives in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota with his wife, son and daughter-in-law, and his two granddaughters. Morrissey's new book, GOING RED, will be published by Crown Forum on April 5, 2016.