More on the Band of Brothers Project

In an earlier post I mentioned the 'Band of Brothers' web site, the goal of which is to help organize support for military veterans running as Democrats in the 2006 election. Remarkably, the site now lists almost 40 candidates. That's almost 10% of the Congressional districts in this country, and if you assume that the vast majority of these men and women would be running for a seat currently held by a Republican, that would mean that almost 20% of the current Republican caucus could have to face a Democratic challenger with a military background in the coming election. I haven't seen much coverage of this trend in the MSM yet (I did catch an NBC news feature on one particular veteran, but I don't recall it putting her story in the context of a larger movement), but someone's bound to notice sooner or later.