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The New DU. Reply #112: Lieberman / Lamont contest showed us how extremely hard it is to replace
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rhett o rick
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Mon Aug-06-07 08:49 AM
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| 112. Lieberman / Lamont contest showed us how extremely hard it is to replace |
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an incumbent in our Party. State and local Party officials will fight you all the way. The Party doesn't want to give up an incumbent no matter who they are. They fear loosing the general to the Republicans. Even in the extremely rare case when you have a viable progressive with a lot of personal money like a Lamont plus tons of national grass roots support, even then the Party will fight you. Lamont did manage to gain the Party nomination but still lost the election to the incumbent Lieberman who was supported by many high ranking Democrats.
To replace corporatist incumbent Democrats is needed to save our Democracy and i will work hard to that end, but we need a strategy.
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