Especially true when you consider how Creigh Deeds kept Obama at bay for the longest time.
"I think as the Blue Dogs welcome their new colleague Congressman Owens and remind themselves that he's the first Democrat to hold that seat in 140 years, since Ulysses S. Grant, and that he campaigned on the Obama program, they'll have to say, 'You know what, we're onto something here if we stick with the program...'"
-- White House political advisor David Axelrod, in an interview on MSNBC.
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