Some congressional Dems won't endorse Obama

Published: June 12, 2008, 11:12 am

Here is some interesting news. I was in Mississippi's 1st Congressional District on the day of the special election last month. Democrat Travis Childers won that race in the heavily Republican district. His Republican opponent ran commercials--I heard the radio version a dozen times that day, tying Childers to Barack Obama and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Childers' victory was viewed as a rebuke to the strategy of running against Obama in Congressional races. As they often are, maybe the experts were wrong, as Politico reports:Rep. Travis Childers, elected just weeks ago in a Mississippi special election, hasn't endorsed anyone in the presidential race yet. "We have had our head down at work, trying to get our feet on the ground up here," said Childers' chief of staff, Brad Morris. "The presidential politics just has not been on our mind."Another Democrat representing a conservative district is Rep. Heath Shuler of North Carolina. The former Washington Redskins quarterback knows

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