It was not the centrists who won this election for the Democrats it was the progressives [View All]

This election has been portrayed by the pundits as a win for conservative Democrats, but while there were several conservative Democrats elected the real winners were the progressives.

We all know what the defining issues in this election were, those issues were the in Iraq (which the majority of the public now opposes) and opposition to the Bush regime.

Who was speaking out against the war in Iraq since the very beginning? Hint: it was not the moderates or conservatives. It was the progressives that were warning people for several years now about the dangers the Bush regime posed to America and the world. On Tuesday the people showed us that they have heard what us progressives have been saying for a long time, and they agree with us.

The pundits are dead wrong when they simply point to conservative Democrats who won and try to claim this is proof of a big victory for centrist ideals. The fact is that there was only one Democrat running in each of the individual races, and no progressive is going to vote for a Republican just because they think the Democrat is too conservative. For the corporate media to focus so heavily on the conservative Democratic victories, while ignoring extremely significant progressive victories like Sherrod Brown's defeat of a Republican incumbent and Bernie Sanders landslide victory in Vermont is doing a great disservice to the public.

Keep repeating the truth until the pundits are forced to listen, this country is moving to the left.