CQ Race Rating Change: AL-5 (to "Likely Republican")

[last_texas_dem]

>>>>Parker Griffith survived a brutal open-seat campaign in 2008 and appeared to have at least a slight edge to keep Alabama’s 5th District in the Democratic column in the 2010 election. On Tuesday, the conservative Democrat announced his decision to switch to the Republican Party.

The move, at first blush, gives the GOP a strong opportunity to establish a hold on a traditional conservative Southern Democratic stronghold — one that has yet to elect a Republican to the House — that nonetheless gave 61 percent of its 2008 presidential vote to Republican John McCain .

Griffith’s decision has prompted CQ Politics to change its race rating to Likely Republican. That means the Republican nominee has or will have an edge in the 2010 general election race, but the contest appears competitive and an upset is a live possibility.

Griffith took a parting shot at Democrats Tuesday as he stepped out the door to join the Republican Conference.
“As the 111th Congress has progressed, I have become increasingly concerned that the bills and policies pushed by the current Democratic leadership are not good for North Alabama or our nation, and more importantly, they do not represent my values and convictions,” he said at a news conference in Hunstville.>>>>

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003272448

[Cha]

1. And, yet he donated to Howard Dean in 2004.

[David__77]

2. Yes, we will probably lose these last dozen or so white southern districts.

But that's ok - these fascist demographics are shrinking.

[TheBigotBasher]

3. So he swaps from being a Republican voting Democratic Member

to a Republican voting Republican.

Well at least he leaves the caucus.

My reply to him

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x87134