Meanwhile, the few Democratic commentators who did say Grayson’s actions were beyond the pale risked a backlash from liberal readers hungering for a fight after a summer in which the health care debate appeared to be dominated by loud opponents on the right.
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“I’m in trouble with some of my readers for not lionizing Alan Grayson, [because I am] a person who has said, ‘I would like to bring facts back to this debate’ and who has criticized the death panel rhetoric,’ ” said Joan Walsh, editor in chief of Salon.com.
But Grayson’s bona fide heroic status with the left isn’t likely to play well back in Florida’s 8th Congressional District, a jagged swath of the Sunshine State that includes Orlando and cuts through some of its northern suburbs.
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