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Editor's note: this story has been replaced with an updated file. Leaders in the Democratic Party on Saturday elected Minnesota’s Ken Martin to be the minority party’s next national chairperson. He had been considered by many to be the frontrunner in the race, but lately Wisconsin’s state party chair, Ben Wikler, had emerged as a threat. Most important, Democrats under Wikler’s leadership, won a liberal majority in the state Supreme Court, that was responsible for finally securing fair congressional maps to the most Republican gerrymandered state in this country. One I heard from after today’s vote simply said this: “The party will lose members.” Democratic leadership seems to be out of touch, and in need of a bold, new direction as we confront the greatest internal threat to our Democracy since the Civil War.

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