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Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes is running for US Senate in the great state of Kentucky.

She is a woman of conviction, of substance, of principle. Im not an empty dress, she insists,

Im not a rubber stamp, and I am not a cheerleader! I am a Clinton Democrat.

Clinton Democrat once had a fairly specific meaning. Back when Bill Clinton first ran for president, he did so as a new kind of Democrat.

He decried the brain-dead policies of both parties.He was so determined to dispel Democrats image as being soft on crime, he took time off from the campaign trail to approve the execution of Ricky Ray Rector, a man so mentally disabled that when he ate his last meal, he left some of his pecan pie on his plate and told guards he was saving it for later.

Clinton broke with his partys racial politics by deliberately picking a fight with the deservedly forgotten rapper Sister Souljah. He vowed to reform welfare (though it took a Republican Congress to get him to follow through) and end the era of something for nothing government handouts.

The Clinton Democrats were spawns of the Democratic Leadership Council, a proudly centrist, pro-business and hawkish outfit within the Democratic Party, which is why left-wing Democrats often distrusted and occasionally despised it.

Jesse Jackson said DLC stood for Democrats for the Leisure Class and ridiculed it as a Southern white boys club.

The DLC closed up shop in 2011, in large part because the Democratic Party has moved so far to the left a fact repeatedly confirmed by Pew and Gallup surveys showing that Democrats favor activist government more than they used to and are much more comfortable calling themselves liberals than they were even a decade ago.

So its interesting that Grimes, and a number of other Democrats, are calling themselves Clinton Democrats. Grimes goes so far as to insist, Im not Barack Obama. She wont even say if she voted for Obama in 2008 or 2012.

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VALPARAISO | Democrat Porter County Sheriff candidate Dave Reynolds has posted $126,727 in campaign contributions so far this year, nearly three times that of his Republican opponent Valparaiso Police Chief Mike Brickner, according to financial disclosure reports released Friday.

A large portion of Reynold's contributions are from two golf outings and a fundraiser where 1,400 tickets were sold, he said.

"I am taken back a little on the amount," Reynolds said.

Reynolds, who has the upper hand on campaign experience havingserved as sheriff for two terms between 1999 and 2006, said he has spent all but a few thousand dollars already and has 2,000 signs out with a waiting list for more.

Brickner, who reported contributions so far this year of $47,393, said he was not discouraged.

He said he felt grateful and humbled by the support he has received so far in this, his first run for elected office.

"We're working hard," he said, "and we're doing the best we can."

The sheriff's job pays $110,500 a year, plus access to the county's health insurance plan.

There is a similar contribution gap in the race for the Center District seat on the Porter County Board of Commissioners.

Republican candidate Jeff Good, who owns a hospitality business overseeing26 properties in five states and 425 employees,posted contributions so far this year of$73,747, including $25,000 of his own money.

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ATLANTA-- Sam Nunn, one of the last Georgia Democrats to serve a full term in the Senate, had just finished watching his granddaughter win a soccer game when he turned his attention to a more pressing family contest: his daughter Michelle's run for U.S. senator.

"Keep reminding voters that President Obama's term is up in two years, but you'll be an independent and long-term investment," he counseled his daughter, who is running as a Democrat for an open Senate seat now held by the Republicans.

National Democrats have just decided to pour $1 million into this race in Georgia, a sign of how important a victory here would be to their effort to beat the odds and hold on to control of the Senate. Yet success here actually could come down to Ms. Nunn's ability to distance herself from her party and the increasingly unpopular man who leads it.

Days after the fatherly advice, the 47-year-old first-time candidate squared off against her Republican opponent David Perdue in a debate.

"We have two more years of President Obama, and then we will have another president," she said, "and we need someone who is going to work with and respect whoever is the president to actually get things done on behalf of the American people."

As Ms. Nunn strives to break Republicans' stranglehold on statewide races in the South in recent years, her party affiliation is missing in action. Her campaign website doesn't divulge that she is running as a Democrat, and bumper stickers, buttons and most materials don't list her party. During two recent campaign swings, she didn't mention her party affiliation and used the word "Democrat" only once. She is positioning herself as a bipartisan whose experience running a service organization associated with a Republican president shows she knows how to bridge divides.

Her opponent Mr. Perdue, the 64-year-old former chief executive of Adidas AG's Reebok unit and of Dollar General Corp., doesn't want voters to forget Ms. Nunn's affiliation with the Democratic Party and Barack Obama. "My race is against this failed administration and the wrong direction President Obama has taken this country," he said in a recent interview.

Polls have shown a tight race, with the most recentone the first to give a narrow lead to Ms. Nunn. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee decision to pump $1 million into advertising for the Nunn campaign came as it pulled the plug on further spending in Kentucky, where the Democrat trails in the polls. If neither candidate in Georgia wins an outright majority--a Libertarian candidate also is on the ballot--they would face a Jan. 6 runoff.

To gain control of the Senate, Republicans need to take a net of six seats from Democrats. The party is optimistic it can win six seats now controlled by Democrats, and most analysts think its chances of doing that are better than even. But it can ill afford to give back a seat such as Georgia's, currently held by retiring Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss. The South has been particularly congenial to the GOP.

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