Not that I mind; I'm not a flaming liberal myself, and in my opinion, any Democrat is better than a Republican, with the current states of the two parties.
Thankfully, most people on the House election blog I follow don't seem to mind that either. Usually, they concentrate their fire on outing less-than-liberal-enough Democrats running in blue districts such as Leonard Boswell (D-IA-03, IA-03 PVI D+1) and Al Wynn (D-MD-04, MD-04 PVI D+30). I, on the other hand, usually concentrate on moderate-progressive/libertarian-progressive Democrats running in red districts (Gary Trauner D-WY-AL PVI R+19, Walt Minnick D-ID-01 PVI R+19, and Nick Lampson D-TX-22 PVI R+15 for example).
Well, I made that statement regarding the district itself.
I totally agree that there are Republicans who are better than many Democrats on the issues and/or on general governing philosophy. But in a strongly red district, it's hard to find a non-conservative who's electable, so it might be best to run a conservative who isn't a nut and who'll at least vote the progressives' side on a few more things than a Republican nut would (especially what with all the crazy right-wing groups these days, most notably the CfG).
As for party loyalty: I supported Lieberman for a while before backing Lamont in 2006, and I was also tempted to support Jodi Rell for our state's governorship. (She won anyway with about 70%, in a Republican reclamation-of-scandal-ridden-seat success story.)
And of course, there are people who kinda switch around for political convenience, such as George Mays of OH-05. Well, Mays is kinda crazy, and sports a crappy website, but you get my idea.
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Not that I mind; I'm not a flaming liberal myself, and in my opinion, any Democrat is better than a Republican, with the current states of the two parties.
Thankfully, most people on the House election blog I follow don't seem to mind that either. Usually, they concentrate their fire on outing less-than-liberal-enough Democrats running in blue districts such as Leonard Boswell (D-IA-03, IA-03 PVI D+1) and Al Wynn (D-MD-04, MD-04 PVI D+30). I, on the other hand, usually concentrate on moderate-progressive/libertarian-progressive Democrats running in red districts (Gary Trauner D-WY-AL PVI R+19, Walt Minnick D-ID-01 PVI R+19, and Nick Lampson D-TX-22 PVI R+15 for example).
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I totally agree that there are Republicans who are better than many Democrats on the issues and/or on general governing philosophy. But in a strongly red district, it's hard to find a non-conservative who's electable, so it might be best to run a conservative who isn't a nut and who'll at least vote the progressives' side on a few more things than a Republican nut would (especially what with all the crazy right-wing groups these days, most notably the CfG).
As for party loyalty: I supported Lieberman for a while before backing Lamont in 2006, and I was also tempted to support Jodi Rell for our state's governorship. (She won anyway with about 70%, in a Republican reclamation-of-scandal-ridden-seat success story.)
And of course, there are people who kinda switch around for political convenience, such as George Mays of OH-05. Well, Mays is kinda crazy, and sports a crappy website, but you get my idea.
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