Yesterday, Montana Democrats had a chance to send another Joe Lieberman to the U.S. Senate. John Morrison was a DLC poster boy using the
DLC playbook. Morrison had been elected statewide twice and raised $1.4 million to populist Jon Tester's $700K. Morrison had everything going for him except for the fact his campaign sucked because it was running a DLC campaign. The final results were a
25% pt. LANDSLIDE:
Jon Tester (D) - 60.84%
John Morrison (DLC) - 35.41%
When all of the votes are finished being counted, it appears Tester may have received more votes* than DLC U.S. Senator Max Baucus received -- running unopposed -- in the last mid-term election!
Matt Singer says:
All I can say is DAMN. I went into last night feeling pretty good, but we thought best case scenario was a 5 or 6% victory. You know what they tell you in politics? They tell you that you don't win races where you start late, get outraised 2-to-1, and get outspent massively on TV in the last week.
This wasn't supposed to happen.
But a whole lot of butterflies flapped their wings. And last night, we had our hurricane. It rained. Hard.
California
In another statewide primary, DLC poster boy Steve Westly wasted $34,500,000 of his own money to try and buy the gubernatorial nomination but lost to Phil Angelides who had the DLC take him off their list last year. Last summer, Kos wrote:
Democrats have a choice to make -- stand with the DLC, or stand with the grassroots and netroots of the party. It's interesting that Democrats with a strong sense of self -- those who truly know what they stand for and are unafraid to say so -- are those least interested in the DLC's snake oil. Obama twice had to demand the DLC take him off their list. California's Phil Angelides -- the next governor of the Golden State given Ahnold's spectacular collapse -- also demanded to be taken off their list. Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, who's anti-war floor speech made the internet rounds last year, also demanded to be taken off their list. Western Democrats in Montana -- blood red territory -- have shown no interest in cozying up with the DLC.
He was right and yesterday's election proved it. The Summer of Reform is now heading to Connecticut where
Ned Lamont is going to give the DLC their third statewide primary loss of the season when he holds Joe Lieberman accountable.
I am a Fighting Democrat and I am not alone!
*With 15 precincts and provisional ballots left to be counted, Tester stands at 64,464. In 2002, Baucus received 66,713 votes.