Paul Kane, Washington Post
- A 21-year incumbent and an icon of the civil rights movement, Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), is racing around his Atlanta district like a first-time candidate.
He has appeared at six or seven churches every Sunday, posed for cameras as he mowed a prospective voter’s lawn, and donned a brown United Parcel Service uniform to deliver packages to his working-class voters.
Today, Lewis faces his first primary challengers since 1992, a pair of candidates who are promoting the “change” mantra of Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and have organized their campaigns around a single, not-so-subtle message: Lewis’s support for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) over Obama in the presidential primary.
