PITTSBURGH — This was a bad idea, Susan Doyle told her husband.
It was 1994, and Mike Doyle had gotten it in his head to run for Congress.
His timing was terrible. He'd switched his registration to Democratic from Republican just two years earlier, so he figured there was no way he'd get the party's endorsement in the primary. And if he somehow squeaked through, he'd face national political headwinds strongly favorable to the Republican Party — so much so, in fact, that they would later sweep the GOP into power in the U.S. House for the first time in a generation.
