New Iraq Democratic Veterans in Congress

[ellisonz]

So got curious and started looking at the 2006 veterans PAC pages that I could find, which were all out of date, and can't find a count of how the Iraq veterans running for Congress did on election day. Anybody have a handy link?

Thanks.

[Voltaire99]

1. The Rahmbos did badly.

You'll want to see this piece by Alexander Cockburn:

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn11082006.html

Excerpt:

Wherever they were given the opportunity, voters across the country went strongly for antiwar candidates. True, the national Democrats, led by Rahm Emanuel of the Democratic Congressional Campaign, had tried pretty successfully to keep such peaceniks off the ballot, but in a few key races the antiwar progressives romped home. The Democrats won, despite Emanuel. If the Clintonites weren't still controlling most of the campaign money, and more openly antiwar populists had been running, the Democrats today would probably be looking at a wider majority in the House and one committed solidly to getting out of Iraq.