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Roxanne Conlin—Is She The Democrat Most Likely To Paint A Red Seat Blue In 2010?
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem May 17, 2010 06:48pm |
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| Author | Howie Klein |
| News Date | Tuesday, May 18, 2010 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The ideologically-based media and the corporately owned media have been diligent in painting a decidedly one-sided anti-Democratic picture going into the November Midterm elections. They hope the conventional wisdom that they've created-- that this is a wave year for Republicans-- will become a self-fulfilling prophesy. This isn't borne out by the facts-- Republicans are as untrusted and unpopular as ever, for example, and as the economy recovers from Bush-Republican financial and economic policies (and deprecations), Democrats look more and more attractive to ordinary Americans. What is clear, on the other hand, is that 2010 will be a bad year for incumbents, particularly conservative ones.
Last weekend in Utah, ultra-conservative Republican Senator Robert Bennett saw his political career come to a screeching halt at the hands of deranged teabaggers. At the same time, one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress, Blue Dog Jim Matheson, was denied the Democratic Party endorsement-- with corporate shill Steny Hoyer in the room pleading with delegates to vote for him-- by an openly lesbian progressive Democrat, Claudia Wright. Mormon-dominated Utah hasn't exactly been fertile soil for progressive values or the Democratic Party, but progressives and Democrats stand to make gains all over the country. And the Blue America guest at Crooks and Liars today (11am, PT), Roxanne Conlin of Iowa, may well be the best shot the Democrats have of turning a red Senate seat blue.
She's also the best shot Iowa Democrats have of taking that seat back from the conservatives in living memory. |
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