Not dead yet
by Tom Sullivan
After Tuesday night, it must feel to some on the left as though The Plague has hit. There are eulogies aplenty for Democrats, especially for Southern Democrats. The New York Times sounded a bit like Monty Python’s Dead Collector:
The rout went well beyond the Senate races — Republicans won all of those in the South except for a squeaker in Virginia and one in Louisiana that has gone to a runoff that Republicans are favored to win — and down to the state level, smothering hopes for strong Democratic farm teams.
Not so. We’re not dead yet. Democrats in our county, for example, swept local races, sent a solid blue delegation to Raleigh (two men and two women), and knocked off two GOP incumbents in doing it. Three of the four were first-time candidates.
If paid Democratic strategists believe what people want is a leader ranked the “most moderate” in the Senate, they need only look at the Republicans who won. And to find another line of work.
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