Help Blue America Pick Our First Candidate For 2010

Just as we've done in past cycles, Blue America will be concentrating on finding progressive candidates with leadership qualities to challenge reactionaries across the country. We expect to work with progressives running against Republicans and against conservative Democrats. We're still doing our due diligence on candidates ready to take on Blue Dogs in primaries and we're eager for suggestions from inside the districts. Before we start making the endorsements, however, we decided to say "thank you" to the progressive stalwarts who have most aggressively lived up to the promise we saw in them. We just sent out our first-ever Blue America donor list e-mail. We only sent it to people who have donated to one of our candidates or causes, although everyone reading this post is welcome to vote in our little "contest."

And that's what the e-mail is-- a request for our community to vote for the incumbent House member they most admire, someone who you think should be our first endorsed candidate of the 2010 cycle. If you click this link it'll take you to the candidate page that shows our five finalists-- each with a short video-- and a click through to vote.

Please only vote once but, by all means, get your friends and family to vote as well.