Democrats 'out of business in the South'

http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/national_politics/article/0,1426,MCA_15116_3411716,00.html ^

[Ellesu]

WASHINGTON -- The generation-long political retreat of Democrats across the South is disintegrating into a rout.

President Bush dominated the South so completely in last month's presidential election that he carried nearly 85 percent of all the counties across the region -- and more than 90 percent of counties where whites are a majority of the population, a Los Angeles Times analysis of the election shows.

[PGalt]

Great news bump! Agree.

[Happy2BMe]

EGGZACTLY WHAT KIND OF BIRD IS THAT? (DO-DO BIRD?)

[processing please hold]

That's fine with me as well.

The Democratic party of our Fathers is dead.

[MeekOneGOP]

Yep! The extinct Dodo bird! :^D

[MeekOneGOP]

..... otherwise known as the Dodocrat! :^D

[SwinneySwitch]

John Branch: Are you getting this?...12/19/04

[MeekOneGOP]

The only truly blue state in the nation was MA.

You're exactly right! I was looking at a few states yesterday.

Here is Massachusetts, per the ACU. They are 100% 'RAT, and ALL LIBS!
The HIGHEST rating is 23, and the AVERAGE is 7!! PURE STINKIN' LIBS

State search results for:
Massachusetts (2003)

Chart Key:
YOS = Years of Service
Life = Lifetime Rating from the American Conservative Union

House of Representatives

House	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	2003	2002	YOS	Life
Michael Capuano (D)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	16	4	5	6
William Delahunt (D)	-	-	-	-	-	A	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	12	N/A	7	5
Barney Frank (D)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	16	8	23	5
Stephen Lynch (D)	A	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	33	13	2	23
Edward Markey (D)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	12	4	16	6
James McGovern (D)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	12	N/A	7	4
Marty Meehan (D)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	20	9	11	11
Richard Neal (D)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	24	4	16	10
John Olver (D)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	16	N/A	13	3
John Tierney (D)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	12	N/A	7	5

See the House Votes Description page for more detailed information about these votes.

Senate

Senate	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	2003	2002	YOS	Life
Edward Kennedy (D)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	10	0	33	3
John Kerry (D)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	A	-	-	-	-	A	-	-	A	13	20	19	5

[Darkwolf377]

It's a joke. You know, funny because there's a bit of truth in it. Lighten up."

You should take your own advice. Calling Jefferson Davis a president was a joke, you know, funny because there's no truth in it. Lighten up.

[mewzilla]

That's a scary stat. Bet John Adams is spinning.

[Darkwolf377]

"I fear canned lettuce cannot be far off in our future."

I've heard food ideas that make me go BLECH! before but that one's a classic! BLECH! SQUARED!

[okie01]

But you tell a reporter these days that the Democrats were the segregationists back then, they'll look at you like you have two heads.

Perhaps, they should go have an intimate chat with Ernest Hollings.

[gridlock]

Perhaps, they should go have an intimate chat with Ernest Hollings.

Or maybe they should get Robert Byrd all liquored up and ask him what he really thinks about race relations...

[MeekOneGOP]

hahahaaa! :^)

[MeekOneGOP]

Yeah, isn't it, though? Glad I live in Red Country! :^D

[ken5050]

The real value of this trend is that the decisive elections will be the GOP primaries in the south. You will gradually see the more conservative candidates emerge..go on to win the general election..and tilt the whole center of gravity of the GOP caucus in DC more to the right..

[Paulus Invictus]

They're instead of their. (Grammar police in action)

[MeekOneGOP]

bump!

[Paulus Invictus]

RATs are as unpopular in Utah as dead flys in the blue plate special.

[mainepatsfan]

Didn't Utah have a bigger percentage of Bush voters than any other state?

[g4everyoung]

Western Pennsylvania sounds a lot like the old Democratic only south, where you had to be a Democrat to get elected. But we are changing that, with the help of Reagan, W, and the demo-libs. Our goal is to make Western PA red by 2008 by recruiting all of the conservative dems, blacks included, away from the now rotten Democratic Party whose values don't represent anybody around here but the gay fanatics and the anti-America leftists. We are going to try to show that the Dems are not the party of the working person, but the party of the ACLU lawyers, AIDS spreaders, abortionists, appeasers, and anti-Americans, in spite of the support of the union hack leadership.