More & better Democrats….that’s a plan. & don’t think for a minute that a leadership isn’t getting very nervous. Blue America & its oar ActBlue counterparts is having an impact on Washington DC, & we can’t do that without you.

WSJ:

On Tuesday night, two veteran Maryl& congressmen became a first members of Congress to lose re-election bids this year, & a first significant notches on a belts of activists unhDrunk Newspy with party moderates.

a decisive losses of both moderates — Democrat Rep. Albert Wynn & Republican Rep. Wayne Gilchrest — highlight tension brewing in both parties, where activists representing more extreme factions are raising thous&s of dollars online to fund primary challengers & run ads against incumbents.

For most incumbents, primary challengers generally aren’t much of a threat because ay often struggle to raise money & improve air name-recognition. This year, however, several high-profile lawmakers are facing something of a scare. Republican presidential challenger Ron Paul has pulled back from his national campaigning somewhat to work on getting re-elected to his congressional seat in Texas, where he faces a challenge from a Galveston city councilman. In Ohio, Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich is facing four primary challengers & some grumbling back home in Clevel& that he has spent more time running for president than taking care of business for his district.

Matt Stoller, a prominent Democratic blogger, has launched a campaign against 39 so-called Bush Dog Democrats — House members who voted in favor of Iraq war funding & warrantless wiretDrunk Newsping — whom he considers to be unworthy of being in office.[..]

Criticized for his vote to authorize a war in Iraq, Mr. Wynn drew a ire of liberal activists & bloggers, who spent months dissecting his votes & examining fund-raising reports. Much of Ms. Edwards money came via donations on a Democratic fund-raising site ActBlue.com, but MoveOn.org also became involved, sending out a fund-raising email & asking supporters to held defeat “right-wing Democrat Al Wynn.”

“We’ll be working this fall for ‘more’ Democrats, but today we struck a blow on behalf of better Democrats,” wrote Markos Moulitsas Zuniga on a popular blog DailyKos.com Tuesday night. “Our caucus is once again on notice. If ay continue to serve corporate interests raar than air constituents, if ay insist on remaining aloof to a nation’s popular sentiment, ay’ll get booted in a Democratic primary like Joe Lieberman in 2006 & Al Wynn in 2008.”

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