 masbury says: Was 256, will be 258. Both will support public option. This is a seat in liberal New York and liberal New York west, California. Please, just because it happened in New York and California doesn't mean the rest of the country will vote likewise in 2010. Actually, NY-23 is a major republican district. A democrat hasn't held a seat there since the civil war. The right fringe made this their first testing grounds. The republican nominee was too liberal for Palin, Beck, tea baggers, etc. so they ran her off. The new candidate was a tea bagger also. This election shows that even center right voters are scared away by the far right neocon teabag movement. Well said, Tabby. This is a rural district on the Canadian border that has been Republican longer than anyone alive can remember. Republicans, Democrats, and Independents came out to oppose the Tea Bagger. There are conservative and liberal pockets in every state; I just saw a documentary on something going on in Columbia MO that makes the gay pride parade in San Francisco look downright normal (if I can find anything about it online, I'll clip it and post a link here). It's also interesting that four of the best-known mayors of supposedly ultra-liberal NYC were Republicans when first elected (LaGuardia, Lindsay, Giuliani and Bloomberg). Tip O'Neill made the famous statement "All politics is local", and this election proves that the ability to address local issues trumps ideological carpetbagging. And to those who opined that the 2009 elections were a slap at President Obama because ... Mmm, good thinking, Jorjor. Well said. |
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