Reply #69: The Party is now the Progressive Caucus.

[JDPriestly]

The Party is lead by the elected Democrats. Pelosi still leads the Party in the House, for example. She will be leading a group of people who are more liberal than before.

Here in California, Jerry Brown has a reputation for being centrist but more liberal. For example, he was the mayor of Oakland, a pretty liberal town. He will lead in a liberal direction.

For Nancy Pelosi or whomever the now more strongly liberal Democratic caucus elect to lead them, the drift will be to the left because the leader of the Democratic caucus will be elected by and answer to a group of representatives who are more progressive or liberal than those elected in 2006 and 2008. That's just the reality. That is what the numbers dictate.