I think we all remember the 2008 Democratic primaries, that exciting and epic battle. In many ways the campaign caused more excitement than the general election, whose result was never really in doubt (especially after the financial crisis).

Both candidates drew upon distinctly different coalitions. In an influential article, Ronald Brownstein analyzes the difference this way:

Since the 1960s, Democratic nominating contests regularly have come down to a struggle between a candidate who draws support primarily from upscale, economically comfortable voters liberal on social and foreign policy issues, and a rival who relies mostly on downscale, financially strained voters drawn to populist economics and somewhat more conservative views on cultural and national security issues.

President Barack Obama assembled a coalition from the former, these “wine-track” Democrats. When most Americans think of liberals, they think of wine-track Democrats. Mr. Obama, then, was the liberal candidate; Mrs. Clinton the “beer-track,” working-class representative.

So candidate won the most liberal place in America?

The answer below (or, alternatively, in the title).

West Virginia’s First District Dem Primary is Beginning to Look more interesting.

Despite being abandoned by her party and out-fundraised by her primary challenger, Secretary Jennifer Brunner holds strong in the polls. Her purely grassroots approach to her campaign is just one of the many reasons that we need her in Congress.

You will be shocked, shocked to hear that a Blue Dog Democrat who made a career out of undermining his own party is sucker-punching them on his way out. Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana abruptly announced this week that he would not seek reelection in November. Bayh’s departure is ratcheting up insecurity in the Democratic caucus at the very moment they need to take decisive action to pass health care reform.

If Michael Moore would run for President in 2012, it could be a game-changer in American political life. For starters, it would likely shorten the war in Afghanistan by at least six months, and the American and Afghan lives that would be saved would alone justify the effort.

Harold Ford Jr. is essentially a Republican ‘trojan horse’ candidate masquerading as a Democrat. For those of you who reside in New York, read on … he could become your next U.S. Senator.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) stands up against provision that would help coal-fired power plants put more dirty emissions into the air.