"This is a wake-up call to the Republican party", "the Republican brand is in the toilet", "if we were dog food, we'd be taken off the market".
Now, come on boys and gals, say what's really on your mind. The wails of anguish coming thick and fast today are a reaction to the GOP's loss in a Congressional special election (ie, by-election), this time in the Mississippi first district, which voted 62% for George Bush in 2004, but has just turfed out the Republican representative Roger Whicker, giving the Democrat contender a 54-46 victory. There are no excuses the Republicans can offer for this one – the state is solidly conservative, and the district did not change hands in the 2006 wipe-out, while the candidate was a local mayor and well-liked. The Republicans thought the seat would go close, but the degree of the swing still comes as a shock, the third in a row.
On these projections the Republicans would lose another 30-40 seats in the 435 seat Congress House of Representatives, thus putting them about 70 seats behind, and effectively a decade away from even having a shot at regaining the House.
The Republicans have nothing to run on, not even fumes. The Mississippi first district is in the north of the state, and takes in areas that are suburbs – or ex-urbs – of Memphis in Tennessee. When you have to spend two hours or more a day commuting, the gas prices are effectively ten free ads a week attacking the ruling government. Every roadside petrol station price board is a standing condemnation of the government's seeming paralysis and lassitude over past years.
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"This is a wake-up call to the Republican party", "the Republican brand is in the toilet", "if we were dog food, we'd be taken off the market".
Now, come on boys and gals, say what's really on your mind. The wails of anguish coming thick and fast today are a reaction to the GOP's loss in a Congressional special election (ie, by-election), this time in the Mississippi first district, which voted 62% for George Bush in 2004, but has just turfed out the Republican representative Roger Whicker, giving the Democrat contender a 54-46 victory. There are no excuses the Republicans can offer for this one – the state is solidly conservative, and the district did not change hands in the 2006 wipe-out, while the candidate was a local mayor and well-liked. The Republicans thought the seat would go close, but the degree of the swing still comes as a shock, the third in a row.
On these projections the Republicans would lose another 30-40 seats in the 435 seat Congress House of Representatives, thus putting them about 70 seats behind, and effectively a decade away from even having a shot at regaining the House.
The Republicans have nothing to run on, not even fumes. The Mississippi first district is in the north of the state, and takes in areas that are suburbs – or ex-urbs – of Memphis in Tennessee. When you have to spend two hours or more a day commuting, the gas prices are effectively ten free ads a week attacking the ruling government. Every roadside petrol station price board is a standing condemnation of the government's seeming paralysis and lassitude over past years.
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