Democrats Confident After Taking Hastert’s Seat

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WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats on Sunday were celebrating an election victory that they said increased their confidence of holding the House in November and affirmed that party positions on the Iraq war and health care were resonating with voters.

At the same time, they said the victory, taking over the Illinois seat held for two decades by Dennis J. Hastert, who became the most powerful Republican in Congress, showed that Democrats can run strongly in the more than two dozen House seats being vacated by Republicans, particularly given the party’s financial advantage.

The election of Bill Foster, a physicist, for the 14th Congressional District provided special satisfaction to Democrats since it means that their party in the past two years has won seats held by two of their arch foes — Mr. Hastert, the former speaker who left Congress last fall, and Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader from Texas.

“It was a remarkable repudiation of Republican status quo, showing that voters all across America are eager for change,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, said Sunday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/us/politics/10house.html?th&emc=th

[acmavm]

1. Yeah well Nancy, now it is time to put impeachment back on the

table.

[madrchsod]

2. no-- it was the hard work by the democrats in the counties

that went for foster. if it was`t for them foster would not have won. it was the republicans sticking with the loser Oberweis,instead of choosing several much better candidates. it`s great that we finally have a democrat but if this is going to be a nationwide movement then someone in washington better start sending out the money..the national republicans sent a million plus to oberweis,while foster used his own money and a hell of a lot of believers.

[BridgeTheGap]

3. It does demonstrate what's possible when the grassroots are truly

in play. I hope this is a trend.