BY FROMA HARROP “Worried Democrats courting elderly voters as midterm elections near,” reads a headline in The Washington Post. It’s long been clear that if Democrats had been less afraid, they’d have less to be afraid of now. Case in point was the brawl over health care, which a timid President Obama let go on and on in a fruitless quest for Republican support. As a result, Democrats squandered precious time pushing through the Affordable […]