AP Photo/Susan Walsh House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill. This article originally appeared at HuffPost. Subscribe here . W ill Nancy Pelosi have the votes to become the next House speaker? It certainly seems so, despite a lot of smoke and bluff from her detractors. For starters, it is dawning on the newly elected House Democrats, most of whom are progressives, that the hardcore anti-Pelosi opposition is comprised of men who want to push the party to the center. The hashtag #FiveWhiteGuys nicely sums up what’s at work. The white guys in question are Reps. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, Tim Ryan of Ohio, Ed Perlmutter of Colorado, Kurt Schrader of Oregon and Bill Foster of Illinois. They want a party that has more appeal to the middle. But the 2018 election was all about grassroots energy, women’s leadership, and Democrats running as pocketbook progressives flipping House seats. So, why would the Democratic caucus want to displace a leader...