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...more people questioned what happened on 9/11. If people had been a little more skeptical, maybe we would have questioned whether Iraq really had WMD, whether the war and reconstruction would pay for themselves and whether 130,000 troops were enough. Maybe we would have questioned the need to elect George W. Bush to a second term. Ryan Gielen New York City...
...WHAT IT SAYS IT DOES Aims to help elect Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to Congress and hold current members of Congress accountable for "votes and positions that harm America and its troops and veterans...
...infancy. Compared with established interest groups like organized labor and conservative Christians, the Netroots play a small role in national politics. Even their most ardent players now recognize that you can't create a true movement using nothing but modems and instant messaging. "The Netroots cannot elect someone alone," says Matt Stoller, a blogger at the popular group site MyDD...
...membership of MoveOn suggest that the Netroots could total 6 million people, and that assumes blog audiences don't overlap, which they do. That's only a small fraction of even the Democrats in the U.S., who number more than 70 million. While 5 million people can elect the Governor of California, the Netroots are dispersed all over the country. Even in Connecticut, one of the most liberal states, Ned Lamont, Lieberman's primary nemesis, couldn't rely on just the Netroots to get him elected. MoveOn has 50,000 members in the state; Lamont got 146,000 votes...
PROVING THE EXISTENCE OF THE MISSING LINC Lincoln Chafee, the pro-choice, antiwar, handgun-hating Senator, wins his Rhode Island Senate primary, proving that the G.O.P. will do anything to keep its majority--even elect a Democrat...