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Kudos to Joe Andrew for seeing a losing proposition and making the tough decision to be part of a solution. Here’s a guy who owes a large part of his career to Bill Clinton, making the decision to put our country and the good of progressive change before himself. Perhaps the perspective he gained as one of the youngest DNC chairs in history helped him identify the golden opportunity our party risks during this destructive primary process.

While he cites the remaining Obama/Clinton contest as a “wealth of riches,” the real treasure lies in the mountain of engaged, newly Democratic-identifying young people manufactured in the last eight years by the Bush administration. We’re talking about a demographic here notorious for disengaging themselves from the political process–only to be ignored by the political establishment in return. I’m afraid that if we continue down the primary path we’ve been on, and Clinton somehow pulled of the seemingly mathematically-impossible feat of the nomination, we’d see a mass exodus of these new Democrats.

There’s nothing like testing the waters for the first time and getting burned. Thankfully, there are still some self-sacrificing members like Joe Andrew in the party establishment that have the best interests of both the country, and our party, in mind.

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