Maybe snitchy ass linda is writing another report.
BTW...has anyone seen Maggie since the thread exploded?
Local elections wiped out Republicans in Republican territory!!!
This is a very Republican area. Reading the local election results I could not believe my eyes. It was a long list of one Democratic upset after another, read a few:
Hatboro, PA: The Democrats have not held a single seat on Hatboro Council in 14 years. In one day, yesterday, they took a super-majority on the council and upset a Republican Mayor who had been in office for two decades.
Doylestown Borough, PA: As of Monday, all nine members of Doylestown's council, and its mayor, were Republicans. After election day, Democrats took three of those seats and the mayorship.
Doylestown Twp, PA: Two Democrats defeat Republicans for open supervisor seats in very conservative township.
Hatfield Twp, PA: Republicans lose their 4-1 grip to a 3-2 Democratic Majority.
Chalfont, PA: Two Democratic challengers took spots on the borough council.
Warminster, PA: A Democrat wins the job of township supervisor for the first time in more than a decade.
Warrington, PA: The board of supervisors was 4 for 4 republican. After big upsets last night, it stands at 2-2.
Quakertown, PA: Republican Borough Council President ousted by a Democratic challenger.
The Democrats' dramatic gains in Tuesday's election signal the end of decades of Republican domination of Long Island politics, experts in both parties say.
"The days of monolithic Republican control are over," said John V.N. Klein, a former GOP Suffolk County Executive. "In the past when this kind of thing happened, I'd say give it a couple of elections and we'll be back in charge again. We can't count on that anymore."
Judith Hope, former state Democratic chairwoman, said the suburban swing toward the Democrats amounted to a "seismic change" in the state's political landscape. "For generations, Long Island was the heart and soul of the state Republican Party," she said. "But this election was so decisive, it shows that Democratic gains in recent years are not an aberration."
While Democrats Bill Clinton and John Kerry have won Long Island in their presidential bids, local Democrats for the first time Tuesday consolidated their gains -- winning control of the legislatures in both counties as well as the offices of county executive and district attorney.
Those gains come on top of Democrats' control of four of the Island's five congressional seats and the September special election of Marc Alessi to the State Assembly. "Only a few years ago, this kind of thing would have been unheard of and undreamed of," said Hope, an East Hampton resident.
"There's a kind of pall in terms of the American mood," says Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducts the Journal/NBC poll with Democratic counterpart Peter Hart. "It's a very unhappy electorate that's going to be very unstable....for a Republican majority." ...
NBC news adds, "Approval for [Bush's] handling of the economy (34 percent), foreign policy (35 percent), terrorism (39 percent), and Iraq (32 percent) have all hit rock bottom.”
posted on November 11, 2005 07:58:02 AM
Ya but, Helen, don't you get the feeling that the neocons in here just don't want to talk about things like elections and polls ?
But, but, but, Clinton did this, Clinton did(blubber, blubber) that...(gurgle,snuffle) we don't want to see what's happening (snurfle, barf) today...but(squirm, worm), Clinton had SEX and bush only killed thousands of people!!(poor us, we're so picked on(rattle, rattle thunder clatter boom boom whine SSSssssssssss.........
posted on November 11, 2005 09:08:42 AM
I know neocons are completely uninformed about most things but to actually think Tuesday only brought about "2 Democratic governors becoming 2 Democratic governors"
