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Jeff Cohen

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Another corporate dem bites the dust - What They Never Told You

Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images

Three years ago, we helped write a report for RootsAction.org targeting 15 corporate Democrats in Congress who deserved to be primaried. We called the report "Bad Blues." A common reaction back then was that those establishment politicians were too strong and entrenched to be defeated.

On Tuesday, yet another "Bad Blue" apparently went down to defeat — with Rep. Kurt Schrader of Oregon, a seven-term incumbent, running way behind community activist Jamie McLeod-Skinner in the slowly tallied Democratic primary.

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