Monday, March 21, 2005

Check Out this Long Shot for 2008

From the Chicago Tribune comes a story that perked me right up.

[snip] The race for the 2008 Democratic Party presidential nomination is already being handicapped and, according to one offshore gaming Web site, the front-runners are former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards at 3-2 and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton at 5-2. But if I were a betting man, I'd consider putting some dough on a 16-1 shot, Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold.

[Feingold] unabashedly stands for progressive Democratic Party values...This is no wimpy liberal who trims his message to fit supposedly conservative times.

In Wisconsin, while John Kerry barely eked out a win in one of the most hotly contested battleground states, voters were giving Feingold a near-landslide victory, electing him to a third term with 55 percent of the vote. Unlike Kerry, who tried to play it safe from start to finish, Feingold won big after voting against the Iraq war and Bush's tax cuts, and having cast the lone vote in the Senate against the Patriot Act. [snip]

This guy has cajones.

Originally run in the Chicago Tribune, "Edwards? Clinton? Nah, 2008 Could be Russ Feingold's Year", March 20, 2005, by Sanford D. Horwitt.

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