A question for knowledgeable DUers...?

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17. well, there is still

DiFI, Bill Nelson, John Tester, Clair McCaskill, Cory Booker, Heidi Heitkamp, Tim Kaine, Joe Manchin

All of those are probably considered DLC of varying shades.

I have this thing about the political process. I kind of think that CANDIDATES should decide to run. When you say "should Democrats run something totally different" you make the whole candidate selection process into something very undemocratic.

Which, of course, it very often is. A group of party elites and people with deep pockets find somebody, usually with deep pockets of their own - to run for the office.

I will say it again. If we want a candidate more liberal than Landrieu, then let that candidate run in the primary and beat Landrieu. If they cannot do that, then what chance do they have to win the general election? For myself, yes, I would rather win with a Landrieu than to lose with a Kucinich. I'd rather have 60 Democrats in the Senate, even if 10 of them are DINOs than to replace those DINOs with a bunch of conservative Republicans. And realisitically, sometimes you can elect a George McGovern in a place like South Dakota, but more often you will get a Tim Johnson, Tom Daschle or Stephanie Herseth.

But I'd love to have Johnson, Daschle and Herseth rather than Rounds, Thune and Noem.