Considering Bennet’s wealth, corporate fundraising, incumbency and presidential support, it is astounding that a whopping 46 percent of this bellwether state’s Democratic voters cast their ballots against him, against their own party’s establishment and against their own party’s president.

For those who care about a progressive economic agenda and about injecting democracy into the Democratic Party, this is encouraging when put next to the similarly impressive results of White House-thwarting Democratic primary challengers in Pennsylvania and Arkansas. And that trend explains the increasingly fierce pushback from Washington.

Yes, this is why President Obama’s spokesman, Robert Gibbs, so vociferously berated the progressive movement on the eve of Colorado’s primary, and why DNC powerbrokers moved so forcefully against Romanoff. He was the latest candidate to represent what those elites know to be an ascendant national progressive uprising inside the Democratic Party — one that keenly understands money’s corrosive effects on public policy and that, therefore, rejects the Beltway’s corporatist model.

via Elites’ Democratic Days Are Numbered — In These Times.

Thank you Bill Halter and thank you Andrew Romanoff. Also I don’t know how progressive Joe Sestak is but he was clearly more favorable than Specter in PA.