Distributed Primary Challenges as a Challenge to Party Politics
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, June 8 2010
The AP's Philip Elliott reports on how progressive activists have taken it to Democratic incumbents this cycle, using the primary challenge to Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln as a case study: Democrats already face an ... Read More
If You Liked That Bill...
BY Nancy Scola | Friday, May 28 2010
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee is running online ads highlighting the logic of supporting both Bill Clinton and, in the Democratic run-off, Lt. Gov. Bill Halter -- despite the former president's endorsement ... Read More
Last Night as a Triumph of the New Institutions of the Netroots
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, May 19 2010
The name of the game this morning is, of course, to find some big-picture meaning from last night's primary results. Here's one structural aspect that seems to be getting underplayed a bit. There's a case to be made for ... Read More
Net-Powered, Cable-Boosted Politics Won Last Night
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, May 19 2010
With challengers like Rand Paul, Joe Sestak and Bill Halter all beating candidates backed by the Washington establishment last night in primaries in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Arkansas, John Harris and Jim Vandehei have ... Read More