As summer grinds on, the Congressional recess nears and regular folks (you know, normal people, not the politically obsessed) put out the do-not-disturb sign for August, the national political press is always looking for conflict-leaden storylines to drive clicks and page views in an otherwise dead zone. The upheaval on the Democratic side of arguably the nation’s most important U.S. Senate race has been a gift from the digital media gods. It has all the ingredients of a brisk summer page turner consumed in a tanning session or two at the beach.