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Whatever. I was actually sorry that Chafee didn't win. He seemed like
a
good Senator to me, one of the very few republicans that I might vote
for if in his distrct. And I believe that republican arrogance (as
opposed to "overconfidence") had a part to play with the electorate
too.
The final poll in the state showed 62% liked him and thought he was
doing a
fine job....and they still voted for the Dem to teach Bush and the
Repubs a
lesson. We New Englanders are like that, you know. :-)
Like that stupid? Bush doesn't give a **** about the party.
I think the lessons republicans learned is voting for
someone who doesn't represnet you cuz he's better than the other guy
isn't.
My brother was a republican up until this election. The anti-science
whacko ID/stem cell/Schiavo group in the republicans (****, that
sounded like Arny. I may have to kill myself now.) was what turned him
over.
I suspect the Dems picked up a whole lot more like him. And even more
turned independent.
Since the democratic party has no soul, they only exist to be in
power..
it wouldn't take that many conservatives to flip over and make the dems
the conservative party.
The Dems used to be the conservative party.
The evangelicals started their republican takeover in the 1970s.
So the takeover of the democratic party started in '06? 
I hope not, and I doubt it. But if so, I was a republican before I was
a Dem. I cannot align myself with anti-science, anti-rights,
anti-environment, anti-...
I voted Libertarian in Ca, not that it mattered. We're gerrymandered
to insignificance.
I think all states are. I also think (as I've said) that's the root of
the problem.
Doesn't it **** you off that the dems (at least in Cal.) lead the effort
against gerrymandering reform?
Not really, as it's the republicans elsewhere.
I'd rather neither of them did. But both do. I'm not sure if the
chicken came before the egg though. Something would probably have to
happen at the Federal level.
You may be right...but I'm reluctant to reduce states rights and I think
the chances of federal action are even less than finally getting a state
referendum passed.
ScottW