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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Meanwhile, THIS is how we take the party back from the likes of Pelosi and Reid
Posted by Jill | 6:18 AM
John Edwards may not have been able to break through the cacophony surrounding the "glamor candidates", but another Edwards, this one firmly supported by the netroots, won big yesterday. Challenger Donna Edwards defeated longtime incumbent and corporatist shill Al Wynn in Maryland's 4th District:

Rep. Albert Wynn (D-Md.) is losing overwhelmingly to non-profit executive Donna Edwards in tonight’s primary, and will be the first incumbent headed to defeat this election cycle.

With 51 percent of precincts reporting, Edwards leads Wynn by a 22-point margin – 59 to 37 percent. Wynn conceded to Edwards late this evening.

The defeat of the eight-term congressman can be attributed squarely to ideology.

Edwards’ progressive profile – she has been an activist for various liberal causes – played very well among the affluent, well-educated white Democrats in Montgomery County. She is overwhelmingly carrying the county – by an even larger margin than her 25-point victory over Wynn in Montgomery County in 2006.

But even more impressively, she is defeating Wynn in his home base of Prince George’s County by a 12-point margin, suggesting that Edwards’ criticism of his ties to corporate interests and his initial support for the Iraq war resonated throughout the district.


According to dday over at Digby's place, Wynn had the full arsenal of Pelosi/Reid/Hoyer hackery behind him, and this time it wasn't enough -- not when every progressive group and the entire blogosphere was 100% behind his opponent. Let this be a shot across the bow to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and Steny Hoyer and all those who have mindlessly fallen in line behind the worst leadership the Democratic Party has ever seen and the entrenched hacks in Congress: We are not going away. This is just the beginning. And if we have to find challengers for every one of your seats, we will do it. And we will throw your sorry corporatist asses out of there and send you back home to count your ill-gotten gains and think about how you sold out the American people to a would-be dictator and your corporate masters.

If you want to know what the future looks like, here it is.

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Blogger Unknown said...
>Wynn had the full arsenal of Pelosi/Reid/Hoyer hackery behind him...

That phrase made me lol.
2/13/08, 11:09 PM  
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