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April 10, 2008

Portland Mercury nails it

The Portland Mercury's Amy Ruiz nails it in a piece about Senate candidates Steve Novick and Jeff Merkley.

If you take the candidates at face value, the question for voters, then, is which quality they want in the candidate that will take on Smith. Would they rather send in someone who will trumpet all of the pent-up lefty frustration that's been accumulating over Bush's administration (an administration Smith frequently votes in line with)? Or would they rather march behind someone who, if elected, makes the stronger case that they'd be an effective progressive legislator?

If we have learned NOTHING else over the last several election cycles we have at least learned that all the weeping and gnashing of teeth (2004 election) won't change a damn thing, but that electing effective progressive legislators (2006) can bring change.

Posted by Kevin at April 10, 2008 02:29 PM