GOP a dying breed in New England

[HopeHoops]

Source: AP

HARTFORD, Conn. – A generation ago the Republican Party was the dominant political force in New England, populating the region's congressional delegations with moderates like Connecticut's Lowell P. Weicker Jr. and Rhode Island's John Chafee.

Voters on Tuesday cast out Connecticut's veteran Rep. Chris Shays, the last New England Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives. Sen. John Sununu was voted out in New Hampshire, leaving that state's Judd Gregg and Maine's Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe as the only Republicans among the region's 12 senators.


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Having lived in New Hampshire, I have to say Sununu and Gregg are each at least two fleas short of matching Santorum as GOP lapdogs. I'm glad to see Sununu out but I hope they can dump Gregg as well.

[Maine-ah]

1. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe

will hold their seats for a long time to come. Mainer's like them (not all of us) and until they seriously fuck up in they eyes of their voters, or move on to other things on their own, they will remain.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Most likely, yeah. Esp now that Susan has broken her two term commitment.

[Davis_X_Machina]

3. But she never missed a vote....

....and that's more important than how you vote, isn't it?

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. But of course!

[Phred42]

5. Thank Gawd

Unfortunately we still have a lot of ignorant racist dumb asses here in Northern Illinois

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. That's why we have museums up here.

To display extinct species.

That includes republicans.

[EconomicLiberal]

8. There are plenty of wingnut Republicans left.

But the sane moderate Republicans are all but extinct.

[Doctor_J]

9. Snark. William Weld's skeleton in the foyer of the NE GOP Museum

Right next to Lowell Weickert

[Zorra]

7. Going the way of their ancestors....the Neanderthals. n/t

[matcom]

10. I just LOVE living up here!

LIBERALS AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE!

:rofl:

[NHDEMFORLIFE]

11. Gregg will be tougher

Not impossible to beat, but he does a better job than Sununu at disguising himself as a moderate. Anyone bothering to check his record would know otherwise.

[liberalpragmatist]

14. Could the governor, Lynch, beat him?

Lynch is supposed to be insanely popular and racked up a 70%-reelection win this year and in 2006.

[Mopar151]

15. We need him more in the State House

It's some hard sleddin' to get a sane budget by our amateur legislators.

[hangman86]

12. And a generation ago

The South would always be reliable for numerous Blue states. My how the times change. But hopefully New England won't.

[customerserviceguy]

18. Those Southern states weren't blue

in the sense that we think of it now. They would vote for the Democratic Party because they were still pretty sore over the way they were treated after the Civil War by the Republican Party.

But that ended in 1968, they either voted for Wallace or Nixon. And unless a Southerner was on our ticket, they still did vote Repuke.

I guess that's what makes the Obama victories in Virginia, North Carolina and Florida significant.

[Ishoutandscream2]

13. Congrats. You are indeed lucky folks!

Keep all of us down here in the red states in your thoughts. We're still pluggin' along.

[SteveG]

16. Dead in New England, dying in the Mid-Atlantic

There are only a few left in the Mid-Atlantic. 7-7 split in PA, 24Dto 6R in NY, 1R in DE, 6D to 1R in MD,

[Ken Burch]

17. Well, New England Republicanism had roots in the abolitionist movement

It's only natural that it would die out when the national GOP became the Party Of The Confederacy.

[asksam]

19. Let's hope we can kill them off entirely!

(Of course, I mean the GOP... not the individuals).

[Foxman]

20. Tell us how you did it...

so we can use it here in Texas.

[DeadManInc]

21. Hope this trend starts spreading like a fungus.

[hack89]

22. This is a bad thing - look no further than Rhode Island

one party rule has bankrupted Rhode Island. One party rule short cuts all the checks and balances - it is hard to imagine a more corrupt political environment than Rhode Island.

[gaspee]

23. It's a special case in RI

RI has fewer people than a lot of cities. It's who you know in these parts - and that leads to corruption.

Not arguing that we are the most corrupt state- just that there are a few reasons for it.

[kleec]

24. I truly hope

that Judd Gregg goes in the next election. Being from NH I was so glad to see Sununu go, he was one of the worst Bushbots and Gregg is just as bad. These two rode into the Senate on the coattails of their Daddies......both of which were governors of NH at one time, and Sununu's father got booted from his position. I worked as a volunteer for Obama and Shaheen and I am so glad the election went their way. I agree that NE is finally seeing the light, it just takes some time sometimes!

;)