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| "Fighting Dems" mowed down at the polls |
| 2006-11-09 |
| by Daniel Glover, National Journal Forget the war in Iraq. The political war in America this year proved to be a bloodbath for the "fighting Dems," who might more aptly be called the "fallen Dems" after Tuesday's election. After Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett, a Democrat, nearly scored a special-election upset in Ohio's strongly Republican 2nd District last summer, bloggers and other Democrats began touting war veterans as candidates for 2006. They touted dozens of such candidates as the antidote for the Democratic Party's long-running electoral ailments on the defense and security fronts. But if Democrats have the same low tolerance for political casualties as they have shown for battlefield casualties in Iraq, their push to recruit and elect to Congress military veterans who run as Democrats will be short-lived. A few of the anointed candidates dropped out of their races well before the general election, and 18 others were defeated in primaries, suggesting that the party as a whole is not eager to rally around veterans. Most of the other fighting Dems were soundly defeated Tuesday. The outcome in Texas was particularly brutal for Democratic candidates with a military past. Not a single one survived the Election Day Alamo; in fact, none even came close to victory. The highest finish by a fighting Dem in Texas was 40 percent, and one of them, Rick Bolanos, only netted 2 percent in an eight-candidate race. Hit the link for a |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #3 people don't like phonys. |
| Posted by: anon 2006-11-09 22:03 |
| #2 Wait! I thought Clintonoid Rahm was a freakin genius. Whathappe'd |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-11-09 21:46 |
| #1 "Election Day Alamo" I wonder if he recognizes that the side that was defeated at the Alamo won the war. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2006-11-09 17:23 |