Thanks, vox populi for reminding everyone that there's an important congressional primary on Tuesday in MD-04 and to help out however you can. Wynn is desperate, he's hoping for the surge in Obama voters in his district will overwhelm the polls and vote for him as an after-thought -- name recognition and ballot placement favor him. He's also endorsed Obama and gone on TV as a surrogate for him, an appearance that was not sanctioned by the Obama campaign. Wynn is just trying to bask in the glow. The reality is, per Matt Stoller who's been doing a great job of championing Donna Edwards over at Open Left, that when Wynn endorsed him, Obama didn't send out a press release announcing it, something he always does. I should note that Donna Edwards has endorsed Barack Obama as well.

Know how else we know Wynn is desperate? Look at this last minute influx of cash -- more than $150k in the last 3 days -- Wynn received from his corporate backers, desperate at the prospect that they may lose one of their greatest shills in congress.

The thing is, they're right to be desperate. Donna right now appears strong, polling ahead of Wynn in a recent Lake Research (D) poll 40-32 and receiving a strong endorsement from The Washington Post.

For her part, though, Ms. Edwards, a lawyer and foundation executive, has been an effective, energetic advocate for a range of liberal causes -- the environment, higher minimum wages, stemming domestic violence, campaign finance reform. As a community organizer, she has been an unstinting voice for improving mass-transit options, although sometimes at the expense of building roads that the 4th District badly needs. Even in cases where she clashed with local developers, however, she won their respect as a sensible and no-nonsense adversary. Poised, persistent and principled, she would make a fine representative for the 4th District.

The fact is, other Democrats, such as Steny Hoyer, have thrown sopme last minute support behind Wynn as well. An Edwards win would be a real blow to the incumbency racket in Washington and would send a strong message to potential primary challengers everywhere, that these bad Democrats can be taken down. As with most elections, this one is much larger than just one person or one district, so give what you can and do what you can to help Donna Edwards today.