Socialist in Seattle

The Nation reports:

Kshama Sawant, a Seattle socialist who campaigned for the city council on a promise to lead the fight for a $15-an-hour minimum wage, has opened a 402 vote lead in the citywide count.

Sawant has not won the seat, yet.

But as Seattle’s long count has proceeded since the November 5 election, the economics professor and Occupy Seattle activist who campaigned as an antidote to politics as usual has steadily increased her vote. If the pattern continues, Sawant will score an election victory that the candidate describes as "historic"

Notice it's an economics professor not an industrial worker. Socialism isn't a movement of the downtrodden .