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MD 4: Wynn the Latest Dem to Draw an Anti-War Primary Foe
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| Last Edited | RP Jul 26, 2006 03:31pm |
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| News Date | Friday, July 21, 2006 09:30:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The challenge Connecticut Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman is receiving in his Aug. 8 primary contest is widely viewed as a microcosm of the Democratic Party’s divisions over the war in Iraq. Lieberman is one of his party’s few outspoken supporters of President Bush’s decision to go to war and his calls to stay the course; challenger Ned Lamont is a fierce opponent of the war who has drawn substantial support from liberal activist groups.
Yet while Lieberman’s difficulties are absorbing national attention, there are a few other races around the country in which Democratic incumbents are being challenged over their initial support for the war — including some who have changed their minds and now call the war a mistake.
One of these is seven-term Democratic Rep. Albert R. Wynn, who has drawn an unexpectedly strong opponent in attorney Donna Edwards in the Sept. 12 primary for Maryland’s 4th District seat. Edwards’ late-starting House campaign has primarily focused on Wynn’s “yes” vote on the October 2002 resolution that authorized Bush to use military force in Iraq. |
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