Tim Fernholz says that in a year when Democrats are supposed to be on the run, Rep. Tom Perriello is standing up for his progressive record.
Progressive Democrats have long been convinced the Virginian’s approach is the way to win contested seats without compromising the party’s integrity, and tomorrow’s results will be a referendum. “People basically want fighters,” Perriello says after the event. He has no “time for foolishness,” obstructionist Republicans, or “cowardly” Democrats, for that matter. He doesn’t understand why Democrats don’t point out, repeatedly, that they’ve overseen nine straight months of job growth — perhaps because that growth has been anemic at best.
