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Is a stand on the Armenian genocide relevant to a US Congressional race?

I spent some time thinking about this one. Dave Krikorian, the independent scoring well in the polls in Ohio's 2nd, has put out a new flyer about his opponent, Jean Schmidt. Here [h/t to Independent Political Report ] is the text of the flyer: Representative Jean Schmidt has taken $30,000 in blood money to deny the genocide of Armenian Christians by Muslim Turks. "The Armenian genocide has been a prelude to the horrors which followed: the two world wars, innumerable regional conflicts and deliberately organized campaigns of extermination that have ended the lives of millions of believers." Pope John Paul II (September 26, 2001) "At this time she does not have enough information to characterize these deaths as genocide, especially when those responsible are long dead." Jean Schmidt's office (March 29, 2007) "Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it--and like too many other such persecutions of ...