There's a debate raging among progressives about Bernie Sanders running for president. [Blue America is encouraging him to run.] Most progressives-- or at least the ones I talk to-- think he should run. Some want him to run, as he has for his entire career, as an Independent.
Independent candidateAdolph Reed, who exploded onto the national scene last week with an incisive article-- and Bill Moyers interview-- about the demise of the left, said he expected pushback from liberals. And he got it.
McConnell doesn't get a lot of good news lately. But he did yesterday. The progressive Kentucky Democrat running for his seat dropped out of the Democratic Party primary against centrist Alison Lundergan Grimes and declared his intention to run as an independent.
