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Month: November 2010

Election Open Thread

If you feel like talking about the election, feel free to do it here.  In most cases, I don’t care if Dems lose, they deserve it, but a couple likely losses will sadden me: Feingold and Grayson.

Update: Grayson has lost.  Blanche Lincoln is also down.

Update 2: Feingold down.

Digby on Grayson:

Regarding Grayson,well we have a little controlled experiment. His neighboring first term Democratic congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas, in a very similar district, took the opposite approach to Grayson. She ran as hard to the right as she could get away with, never had a controversial thought much less uttered one, was rewarded with big money and support from the DCCC — and she lost too. This race was bigger than both of them. Florida is turning hard right.

Update 3: As a friend pointed out at this point it looks like in the House 25 Blue Dogs lost, and 4 progressives.  Therefore the Progressive movement is doomed.

Yeah.

How Appropriate that Acorn should file for bankruptcy as Dems take a bath

Dems abandoned Acorn, an organization which had relentlessly registered new voters, based on accusations which were outright lies.  Now Dems lose an election as an organization which had helped them for forty years goes under.

Democrats deserve these losses.  That’s not to say that every Dem does (Feingold, if he loses, for example), but they abandoned their own base, bailed out bankers and didn’t fix the economy.

You reap what you sow, folks.

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