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...House resolution passed 256-153, with 42 Democrats, many from tightly contested congressional districts, voting for it, while all the party's leaders opposed it. Democrats are already worried that the GOP could again use the security issue to beat them in this fall's election, as they did in 2002 and 2004, by pointing to the vote as evidence that Democrats don't support the troops. After the vote, when asked if Republicans would use the issue to attack Democrats, Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 Democrat in House, said, "I hope not, but the 60-second ads are already...
...student laid out a conservative case for Kerry: "When a Democrat is in office and proposes the same policies that Bush has proposed, Republicans act Republican and kill them," said Aakash Raut, 23, a senior at the University of Illinois at Springfield, in a heated debate with pro-Bush students. "And you have actually more conservative government than you do if a Republican is in the White House...
...fact, in Las Vegas, the most energized discussion about any political race concerned a Senate seat in Connecticut already held by a Democrat. It seemed that half the people at the convention were wearing either a "Ned Lamont for Senate" button or the angrier version of the same message - a button dubbed "The Kiss," showing President Bush putting his lips on the right cheek of Senator Joe Lieberman at the State of the Union in 2005. The bloggers have focused much of their energy and money this year in supporting Lamont's campaign to defeat Lieberman in the Connecticut Democratic...
...beating Lieberman would be important for bloggers not just because he's a pro-war Democrat they hate. The bloggers, for all the attention they get from potential President candidates, are often ignored in Washington for the same reason their champion Howard Dean is: they haven't won anything. In 2004, Daily Kos aggressively pushed and raised money for 15 congressional candidates; all of them lost. (To be fair, the blog got involved in some of the campaigns because they were long shots.) "If I had their record, I wouldn't be eating right now," said one veteran Democratic consultant...
...protesters to the school's gates each year - and that forced the 2001 name change because "School of the Americas" had become too notorious - has brought pressure on Capitol Hill as well. Last Friday, the House of Representatives voted on a measure sponsored by Rep. Jim McGovern, a Massachusetts Democrat, to remove the school's funding - 10 million taxpayer dollars annually - from the 2007 Foreign Operations budget. McGovern's amendment failed in a close vote, 218-188. "We will not go away on this," McGovern told TIME moments after the vote...