Now We're Talkin' !!! - 'The Left's Quiet Advance in Democratic Primaries' - TheAtlantic
The Left's Quiet Advance in Democratic PrimariesProgressives tout their victories as proof they're successfully pushing the party to adopt bolder ideological stands.
Molly Ball - TheAtlantic
Jun 19 2014, 11:00 AM ET
Iowa congressional candidate Pat Murphy calls himself "a liberal's liberal." (Progressive Change Campaign Committee)
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This year’s Republican primaries have been closely watched by pundits sifting for clues about the relative primacy of the GOP’s warring factions. But Democrats have primaries too—and this year, the left is winning many of them.
National liberals point to a handful of recent contested primaries where candidates from the party’s “Elizabeth Warren wing” beat moderate “corporate Democrats” to argue that the left wing is on the rise. It's a similar dynamic to the Tea Party-vs.-establishment divide on the right, though far less divisive, and a trend that has the potential to quietly reshape the Democratic Party if it continues.
In New Jersey, Bonnie Watson Coleman, a former assemblywoman who campaigned on raising taxes on millionaires to spend more on education, had been thought to be in a close race with a moderate state senator, Linda Greenstein. Instead, Coleman won the primary by a double-digit margin.
In Iowa, Pat Murphy, a former state representative, aired TV ads that dubbed him a “bold progressive.” He beat out four opponents, taking 37 percent to his nearest competitor's 24 percent.
Victories like these have led the Progressive Change Campaign Committee to declare vindication for its view that Democrats win when they campaign on a platform of muscular liberalism. “A message of economic populism is what actually excites voters and drives them to the polls,” Adam Green, PCCC’s co-founder, told me. “Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot if they don’t embrace it.”
PCCC supported the winning candidates in these races and funneled donations to them. The group also supported an incumbent California congressman, Mike Honda, who faced a challenge from a former Obama administration appointee, Ro Khanna; Honda finished 22 points ahead of Khanna, but the two will face off again in November thanks to California's nonpartisan primary system. And in a fourth primary, the free-for-all battle for the California seat vacated by retiring Representative Henry Waxman, the group didn’t endorse a candidate but urged its members to vote against former Los Angeles Controller Wendy Greuel, a former Republican whom they painted as supported by corporate interests. Greuel lost to Ted Lieu, whose message of raising wages and easing student debt progressives applauded.
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More: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/in-democratic-primaries-the-left-advances/372990/
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I thought that this was particularly good news.
Thanks for the thread, WillyT.
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having sexual relations with their significant other.
Keep the faith brother. 
Pixelated swords on an imaginary field of battle.
(must admit i enjoy it too...)
YET... WE are a political board... and need to be seriously political.
So there.
AND... GOTV !!!
"Now we're f%#@!ing Talkin!"....nah don't do that.
It proves, yet again, that people WANT liberal ideas and liberal politicians. The landslide victories of Barack Obama prove the same. Contrary to what we are told by party leaders and those who adamantly oppose "the far left," liberals CAN WIN. We don't have to incorporate the right, we don't have to move right to woo wackos. But what these politicians do have to do is, when elected, act like fucking Democrats and fight for their platform.
Rec'n it!!
and doesnt try to come up with some phoney BS that she supports The People. She's made her bed (Goldman-Sachs) now she can lie in it. She will have Citizens United and big money behind her, but the American people may reject that.
Support Democratic candidates via outside organizations, not the DNC, etc.