Heard Allan Lichtman speak last night - seems to be one of us!

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I thought he was very impressive - a 'Paul Wellstone Democrat' and we need someone 'with a brain' in the Senate!

A 30-year Maryland resident, Allan grew up in the inner city of Brooklyn, NY. His wife, Karyn Strickler, grew up on a farm in Carroll County, MD. He has two children. Sam is a student in the Montgomery County public schools and plays lacrosse, football and basketball. Kara attends medical school.

In Allan’s Brooklyn neighborhood you learned to run and to fight. He ran track and wrestled in college and is running for the Senate to fight against the biggest, most intrusive, and least responsive government in our history, built by Bush and his allies.

Allan graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis University, earned a PhD from Harvard, and is a professor and formerly chair of the History Department at American University.

As an educator for more than thirty years, he has listened to and learned from his students, while sharing his knowledge and experience.

He would be the only lifetime educator in the Senate, becoming the voice for teachers and America’s 100 million children and young adults.

Allan has testified as an expert witness on civil rights in more than 70 cases for the U.S. Department of Justice and for civil rights groups such as the NAACP, the Mexican-American and Puerto Rican American Legal Defense and Education Funds, and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

For the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Allan discovered that racial differences in the rejection of ballots during Florida’s 2000 election cost African-Americans over 50,000 votes and Democrats the presidency.

Allan has provided commentary for all networks and cable channels. He was the regular political analyst for CNN Headline News.

He is a fifteen-year columnist for Maryland’s Journal and Gazette newspapers. He has lectured across the world and been cited hundreds of times by our leading newspapers, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Baltimore Sun.

Allan consulted for Vice President Al Gore and Senator Edward Kennedy. He was Scholar/Teacher of the year at American University. He has authored six books, including The Keys to the White House. Allan’s Keys system predicted the popular vote result in every presidential election since 1984.

Allan was National Age Group Champion (30 34) in the 3000 meter steeplechase and defeated twenty opponents on the nationally syndicated quiz show, “Tic Tac Dough.”

http://www.allanlichtman.com/

[Sammy Pepys]

1. AU alum here

Yup, Liuchtman's a good guy.

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2. He should be a favorite

Cardin is too friendly with the Repugs