In yesterday’s special election for the open seat in Massachusetts’s 5th Congressional District, Democrat Niki Tsongas defeated Republican Jim Ogonowski 51 percent to 45 percent. It was a surprisingly close race in a district where Democratic incumbent Marty Meehan ran unopposed in 2006 and crushed his Republican opponent 67 percent to 33 percent in 2004. In the 35 years since the district sent a Republican to Congress, only once, back in 1990, did the Democratic victor garner a smaller percentage of the vote than Tsongas’s 51 percent. The NRCC is all but proclaiming this 6-point loss as a victory, but over at the Corner, David Freddoso contends that the NRCC’s spin is “incomplete and misleading.” Freddoso writes: