New analyses continue to emerge on the race between GOPer Brian Bilbray and Democrat Francine Busby — a closely watched race that ended with Bilbray hanging on to the seat once held by the disgraced and now-jailed Randy “Duke” Cunningham.
First, read Citizen Smash who looks at whether the Democrats made much of a dent this time.
And, secondly, listen to Ed Schultz, the country’s top progressive talk radio host, who shares in an audio clip his thoughts about what the Democrats should have and might not have learned from the Busby defeat.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.