By Anna Fifield in WashingtonPublished: January 20 2010 15:21 | Last updated: January 20 2010 18:11
Democrats were on Wednesday morning conducting an autopsy into their humiliating Massachusetts Senate defeat, which puts President Barack Obama’s legislative agenda at risk and underlines the challenges the party faces in this year’s mid-term congressional elections.
The loss of one of the safest liberal seats in the country will cause many Democrats to question their entire strategy. It has also rattled those in more marginal seats and prompted warnings that the party needs to focus on the middle political ground.
“There’s going to be a tendency on the part of our people to be in denial about all this,” said Evan Bayh, a centrist Democratic senator from Indiana, whose own seat could be in jeopardy in November.
“If you lose Massachusetts and that’s not a wake-up call, there’s no hope of waking up ... The only way we are able to govern successfully in this country is by liberals and progressives making common cause with independents and moderates,” Mr Bayh told ABC News.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Democrats start to question strategy
It's amazing that they slept through all of the alarms going off for the past 6 months....
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