Some Hopeful News

From Political Wire:

Two Ways to the White House Walter Shapiro was in New Hampshire over theweekend and reports Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Mark Warner(D)"electrified Democrats" with their appearances before the state convention "and underscored a choice of divergent paths toward 2008.

"Putting aside Sen. Hillary Clinton's (D-NY) simmering campaign for the moment,"the two Democrats who have had the best run of it in 2006 are unquestionably Feingold and Warner, representing the purist and pragmatic wings of the party. Feingold has made other Democrats look timorous by championing

withdrawal from Iraq and a Senate resolution censuring the president. Warner has emerged as the party's latest Southern white knight, the red-state dragon slayer who combines a sterling record as governor with an appealing business background as a mega-rich cellphone entrepreneur who helped found Nextel."

"Feingold and Warner have, in effect, become the book ends surrounding a hefty, but potentially unreadable, tome called, It Takes a Village of Consultants: The Cautious Political Career of Hillary Clinton. "

The Concord Monitor: "Going by audience claps, whistles and screams, Feingold won yesterday's match-up. Applause punctuated his half-hour speech about 20 times; thunderous claps met his mention of his attempt to censure President Bush."