Terence Samuel reports on Donna Edwards' challenge to incumbent Congressman Al Wynn in Maryland's 4th Congressional District:
When voters in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia go to the polls tomorrow, the battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will share the stage with an equally intense primary in Maryland's 4th Congressional District, where eight-term incumbent Al Wynn is in a dogfight for re-election against a formidable challenger, Donna Edwards.
Edwards has attracted a lot of support from progressives inside and outside the district in part because of a series of controversial votes by Wynn. In 2005 he voted yes on a bankruptcy reform bill that was a clear giveaway to the banks and the credit-card companies at the expense of consumers, particularly the marginal ones in debt or bankruptcy. And he has voted for one of the GOP's favorite tax cuts, the repeal of the estate tax, which affects only a small percentage of the wealthiest Americans. But it was his vote in 2002 to authorize the war that could topple him on Tuesday.
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