she happen to have the added advantage of being an extraordinarily good candidate and despite being out spent 10 to 1, she was able to run a strong grass roots campaign and win. the message here i that when you have candidates who are talking about the realssues impacting working fams and running sroots campaigns, they will win in new york city. they won in maryland. ben jealous pulled off an upset to become the democratic candidate for governor. we re seeing this happening all across the country. it was a big night for progressives. are voters also saying they want a fresh set of eyes to come to washington and to help set the agenda? the messaging aside here is part of this saying, look, we want some newcomers. i think that s media hype. what alex andria did, she s 28