The Mississippi threads tonight leave me with just one conclusion

[CatWoman]

those brain-dead, Chimpy-worshipping, Republican-enabling, morans on the right have finally GOT it!!!!!

This is the fourth(?) race in a republican stronghold that the Dems have won.

IN THE OFF SEASON!!!

No more excuses. No more enabling. No more 'rah, rah, rah'.

They are finally facing reality: their party lied to them, stole from them (and their children), destroyed their comfortable lifestyles, and most of all, don't give a flying fuck about them.

[madrchsod]

1. third race ...

yes it`s looking better all the time....

[terrell9584]

9. These weren't Republican strongholds

Look at who they sent to their state legislature, look at who held their local offices, look at who they were voting for in statewide offices. When Democrats won statewide races, they won these areas.

Childers and Cayazoux are conservative, pro-life Democrats. They won because they held the exact same views as their Republican opponents on social issues, and therefore couldn't be attacked as liberal, and then were able to win on economics.

Given a Southern voter a choice between a conservative Democrat and a Republican they take the former, give them the choice between a liberal Democrat and a Republican they take the latter. These two wins do nothing to disprove this.

They were both open seats where the Republican incumbents kept winning by virtue of incumbency. In the South, once you've won your first re-election, we keep re-electing you. The one thing that happened during the New Deal is that we suddenly controlled a lot of pork, and kept bringing it home, and we found that when an old timer got replaced, pork shares went down.

They were open seats in Democratic leaning areas (Richard Baker's district was carried by Bill Clinton, I don't know if Wicker's was, but remembering his map from 1996, I think its probable) and Democratic candidates ran who were an 85-90% ideological match for the constituency they wanted to represent. The Republicans made substantial gains after 9/11. All this shows is that the GOP is back at the point that it was in the South in the mid 1990s. Hopefully, we can send them back to where they were in 1991

[ColbertWatcher]

2. Don't forget Nebraska...

...numbers still coming in

[Pirate Smile]

3. It is great news.

:)

[KelleyKramer]

4. Yep ....

And I bet for a lot of them it took the gas prices... and any personal connection to the real estate market and sub-prime implosion to wake them up.

A lot of those types, it never sinks in until they get hit hard in the wallet

Sad, But better late than never, I suppose

[DJ13]

5. Not only that, but in each race they lost they tried using Obama against the Dem

So much for Obama's unelectability.

[PFunk]

6. I think Bushco (and the dems) better start worrying

Because it may actually be the Repugs who impeach both him and Cheny first now.

[Postman]

7. I see another 9/11 happening before November.

The republican party insiders know the score.

They know its doomsday for these fuckers come November. BIG TIME.

They either have the electronic voting machines bugged or there's going to be another "surprise" attack somewhere to salvage what's left of their party to get scared shitless sheep to rally behind those in power.....

[Kaleko]

8. Hmm. Do you have the gift of prophecy?

[Wizard777]

10. I do and I see it happening too.

[Kaleko]

11. Well, in that case

prepare to die

and dance while you still can


Btw. I'm psychic too, and I have to tell ya, I see a different scenario :-)

[CatWoman]

12. May I have this dance?

:)

[Kaleko]

15. I'll be honored!

And thank you for asking.

Here's one of my predictions: all around the world, there'll be Dancing in the Streets

...hard times and major set-backs notwithstanding ;-)

[Wizard777]

17. I'll give you this much. The future is not written in stone. Only the past.

[malaise]

14. Regimes collapse eventually because they no longer have enough

supporters to perpetrate their evil deeds.

I dare them to try...they'll be dragged out in chains.

[Bluenorthwest]

13. This is my kind of thread

Yes that was good news. In my state of Oregon, right now in the voting process as we vote by mail, we have registerd thousands of new Democrats and a couple of 'red' districts have gone 'blue' even. Or so I hear. There is a huge interest in the elections and that gives me added hope of defeating our GOP Senator Gordon Smith in Nov and replacing him with a Democrat.

I'd like to offer to those who are frustrated with the long Primary that these new voters and new possibilities are in part being produced by the ongoing Primary process. This process is about far more than the Presidential candidates.

[Truth2Tell]

16. Not to pee in the punch bowl

but let's not get too over-confident here.

It's precisely because we are in the off-season that the "new Republican" meme hasn't had a chance to be catapulted into American consciousness yet. Believe me, it will surface and they will sell it. By "they" I mean both the corrupt media and the Repiglicans.

We will see an unprecedented disinfo campaign designed to separate the Repigs from Bush, present McSame as a sane, moderate hero and demonize Democrats with all the usual dogshit (and more we haven't even thought of yet). "They" will devote, oh, maybe $800 million Dollars over the next 6 months to this project. It will take everything we can muster to fight this. The battle has not even begun.

Everything thus far has been but a whiff.