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Originally Posted by Imperator
well good for them, I hope things do turn around...its about time....do they have term limits down there Mrs. M? Can Nagin run again?
add to this, a Massachusetts Republican, Jim Ogonowski ( a Bush sppter as well) was beaten in a heavily leaning democratic district by just 51%......the harbinger of a democratic sweep next year is not cemented....
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I wouldn't read that much into a low turnout special election, where the Republican is well known as the brother of a 9/11 pilot, the numbers would have been lopsided if he ran on a November ballot when the faithful were out in force.
We still have some pockets of "swamp Yankee" Republicans here left over from the Civil War, but all that is fading fast, Maine is a good example of that with two Republican Senators, but those days are fading fast.
Just like there were Democratic holdovers for years after the South turned Republican, there are still a few Republicans left in the Northeast, but not many and species is getting rarer than the Ivory Billed Woodpecker.