DAILY KOS - Being around sports my entire life, I understand what it takes to pull off an upset. It’s about preparation. It’s about using your strengths and exploiting your opponent's weaknesses. It’s about how you react when you get punched in the face. It’s about having the heart and the mentality that you’re going to win regardless of what other people think. And it’s about luck. Not blind luck, but the type of luck Thomas Jefferson was describing in the paraphrased, “The harder I work, the luckier I get.”

 That’s what we saw in Doug Jones and his campaign in Alabama...

Daily Times Herald - For J.D. Scholten, it doesn’t matter where he’s traveled or how tall he is. And he’s tall. What defines him are Iowa roots, the Democratic candidate for Congress in Iowa’s sweeping 4th District said in Carroll Wednesday night.

Standing 6 feet, 6 inches, Scholten, 37, is a fifth-generation Iowan and the first in his family, which has deep agricultural roots, to be born in an Iowa city — Ames.

Scholten held a meet-and-greet at Pizza Ranch in Carroll Wednesday to discuss what drove him to run for the Iowa 4th District seat... 

Daily Kos - Last week, House Speaker Paul Ryan heard from many members with real concerns about the House’s policies on sexual harassment, some even coming forward with their own personal stories of #MeToo. To Speaker Ryan’s credit, in response he (and others from both parties) proposed mandatory preventative sexual harassment training for members of congress. Who could possibly be against that? 

Steve King, that’s who. His response to a tweet urging preventative sexual harassment training for members of Congress: