Often with less money and name recognition, these self-described Blue Dog Democrats won by campaigning on relatively conservative, antiwar, and populist themes.
The Democratic Party of Clinton and Sanders has no room for moderate Blue Dog Democrats or bipartisanship.
Typically those have been Republican lawmakers and conservative, so-called Blue Dog Democrats.
Like the Democratic Leadership Council and the Blue Dog Democrats, two other groups that broke through in the age of "Third Way" politics, they sought to tap into the vast campaign finance coffers of corporate America.
By the time the GOP and Blue Dog Democrats got done with it, it was even smaller than what had been proposed, and so was not as effective as it might have been.
A lot of these Blue Dog Democrats really were a bridge for the natural gas industry to the Democratic caucus in the House.
The overall gains by the GOP in Congress, however, while positive on the surface, also mean that a number of Blue Dog Democrats are leaving the nation's capitol.
Twenty-two Blue Dog Democrats were defeated in last Tuesday's elections, leaving the fiscally conservative bloc and its allies short-handed.
Does anyone believe, with Obama's popularity slipping and the Blue Dog Democrats running scared, that they're going to push that legislation this year?
Town hall uprisings and other protests that put pressure on Blue Dog Democrats have been enough.
Most recently, on Wednesday, the Obamas opened the White House doors to House caucus leaders from the moderate Blue Dog Democrats and the Congressional Black Caucus.
No one has suggested "doing nothing" or keeping the status quo as a solution, but there are many insightful solutions being proposed by Republicans, Blue Dog Democrats, and Independents that are being totally ignored.