So I Says to Russ Feingold, I Says...

I have FIRE in my belly today. Turns out going to one of Russ Feingold's listening sessions will do that to you...

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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Barack Obama vs. Independents and Moderate Democrats

One of my two closest friends studied political science in college. She’s always thought of herself as a liberal. A few days ago she called me and moaned, “Oh, Kirsten… I didn’t ever want to be a conservative…”  We chuckled briefly about it. But you know what?  Slowly but surely, that’s what’s happening to her, and she knows it.  “I still can’t bear the far right,” she opined, “but I feel so disillusioned with the Democrats. They are taking us in the wrong direction. In the last week or two, I’m looking around at what’s happening, and I actually feel scared.”

She’d said a mouthful. And polls indicate that she is far from alone.

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