"Cantwell, 47, faced a rebellion earlier in the year from the left flank of her party angered over her vote in favor of the Iraq war and her refusal to recant. Anti-war protesters dogged her events [Hmmm wonder who that was???] and her backers worried that her Seattle-area base might defect in droves, throwing a close election to McGavick.
"But over time, she and party elders persuaded the disaffected voters to come home. She managed to get two of her strongest anti-war critics to abandon their own Senate campaigns and join her team, paying one $8,000 a month to be her outreach director to the left wing.
She eventually said she would have voted against the 2002 war authorization if she had known that Saddam Hussein didn't have weapons of mass destruction.
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