Mystery Funds Undermine Democracy
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 8th, 2010 4:31 am by HL
Mystery Funds Undermine Democracy
Donna Brazile, CNN
(CNN) — Give them credit where credit is due: Republicans know how to spend big dollars. In this election, Republican political strategists and their rich, anonymous supporters are really thinking big.
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Tom Perriello’s Political Experiment
E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
DANVILLE, Va. — Rep. Tom Perriello is this election's test case of whether casting tough votes is better than ducking them, and whether a progressive who fashions an intelligent populism can survive in deeply conservative territory. On the face of it, Perriello should be the year's most vulnerable Democratic incumbent. In 2008, he won his sprawling, largely rural district — it stretches from academic Charlottesville down to this gritty former industrial stronghold on the North Carolina border — by all of 727 votes out of a total of some 317,000. Barack Obama lost the district by…
