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Everybody's talking about Vernon Robinson.

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Robinson and Brad Miller already are hooked up in a 13th Congressional District death match.

Heaven help me, I'm almost sorry Robinson withdrew his original candidacy in the 12th District, leaving it to Ada Fisher to run against Mel Watt.

Ada Fisher is a nice lady, but as a candidate? Let's just say the 12th District campaign is going to be pretty quiet again this year.

As of this moment, she hasn't even modified her campaign Web site since April 10, the date of her most recent press release -- or been very active otherwise, as far as I can tell.

Sure, Robinson's kind of crazy. But he might tap a vein of public support on issues like immigration or opposition to same-sex marriage. Miller simply can't ignore him, and isn't.

Mel Watt, meanwhile, will find it the easiest thing in the world to ignore Ada Fisher. As poor a campaign Web site as Fisher has, she still beats Watt, who doesn't have one at all, unless it's tucked away in some hidden dimension of cyberspace. Well, doesn't matter. Watt can afford to pretend there isn't an election. I mean, he's not exactly running against Vernon Robinson, is he?

But, as a resident of the 12th District, I'd like to see a more vigorous, competitive campaign (I'd say the same if I lived in the 6th District).

Maybe not a campaign as nasty and noisy as voters in the 13th will endure. But at least they know there will be congressional election in November and they'll get to make a real choice.