Word: duckworths
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...kids to day care." The implication: You can do it too. Shuler signed up for the race, and polls show he's already even with Republican Charles Taylor in the Asheville district. Emanuel's army includes a sheriff, a former FBI agent and several Iraq war veterans, including Tammy Duckworth, a National Guard pilot who lost both legs when a grenade exploded in her helicopter in Iraq...
...York and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi started lending their support and helping raise loads of cash for one of the nation's most closely watched races. And with the Iraq War increasingly seen as a winning issue for the Dems, they recruited wounded Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth to run for the seat...
...Tuesday, their strategy began to pay off. Duckworth, a 38-year-old former major with the Illinois National Guard who lost both legs during a grenade attack on her helicopter, appeared to have eked out a primary victory over her challenger, tech entrepreneur and two-time candidate Christine Cegelis, by garnering 44% of the vote to Cegelis's 40%. Duckworth will now face a high-stakes fall race against conservative state Sen. Peter Roskam, who himself has had big names like Vice President Dick Cheney helping him amass a war chest topping $1 million...
...Duckworth is one of several veterans of the war in Iraq to enter the political fray this election, and some have questioned whether Democrats-namely Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois representative who is thought to have personally recruited Duckworth-were exploiting a veteran wracked with emotional and physical scars. Duckworth dismisses such talk, as well as the notion that the race is about national issues like the war. "I've been under much more stress when people's lives are on the line," she said. "This I can handle...
...Almost every one of the Iraq veterans running for Congress as a Democrat is in a tough, high-profile fight against a Republican incumbent: they'll be the poster boys (and women: Tammy Duckworth, who lost both legs in Iraq, is running in Illinois) for the Democrats' long-shot efforts to retake the House in 2006. They may also represent the beginning of the Dems' long climb back to credibility on national-security issues. Chris Carney has one of the toughest races. "The district is so Republican that no one really thinks he can win, even with Sherwood's problems...