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Roses Are Blue, Violets Are Too!
E. J. Dionne Jr. in the Washington Post:
As Virginia goes, so goes the Senate — and the nation?
The decision of former Virginia governor Mark Warner to run for the seat of retiring Republican Sen. John Warner is more than just bad news for the GOP. It reflects fundamental shifts in the balance of political power in the country, the growing force and volatility of suburban voters, and the fact that the old red-state-blue-state maps are becoming obsolete.
Republicans have never had much chance of recapturing the Senate in 2008, but Mark Warner’s bid and the decision of Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) to step down combined this week to make the difficult almost impossible.
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One Response to “Roses Are Blue, Violets Are Too!”
Of course, dionne does not take his onw thesis to the its conclusion. The U.S. will soon be a one party state. The red state blue state still holds but there are just fewer red states. The blue states are still there and the Repubicans have zero chance of making in gains in them.
Of course, no pundit looks at the data and writes about what the U.S. will be like as a one party state. Will vote turn out decline so much as elections are dominated by a few special interest? Will current Republican voters cross over and start voting in the Democratic primary so that they can have some level of say in politics? Will the far left extremist benefit from a one party state or will be marginalized?