DAILY BEAST: Motivated by redrawn districts, memories of razor-thin margins, and buyers’ remorse over Republicans, more than a dozen Democrats who lost elections in 2010 are taking another shot in 2012.
Despite that resounding defeat—and President Obama’s lower-than-ever poll numbers—more than a dozen Democratic candidates who ran and lost in 2010, including seven former members of Congress, are running again in the 2012 elections.
They say that a combination of razor-thin margins in their own races, along with newly redrawn congressional districts and voters’ continued disgust with Washington, have convinced them that they can win this time around… (more)
