>>>It takes 2 elections, minimum, to change course in this country. 2010 stopped the pendulum. 2012 determines if it remains stalled or builds momentum to the right.
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>>Or swings back to the left. That got easier with Olympia Snowe stepping down.
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>>Tamar
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>Yeah, that's one extreme right-wing firebrand out of the way <bg> ( Kidding, Tamar. You know I can't help teasing red-diaper babies <s> )

I'm not quite a red-diaper baby. My folks were never communists or even socialists. They and my father's ancestors before them were liberals and activists. My great-grandmother worked for Carrie Chapman Catt and apparently, at one time, the HQ of one of the suffrage groups was in my great-grandparents' home.

As for Snowe, I think the Republican party is "eating its young" by forcing out all the moderates. Used to be New England sent a lot of Republicans to Congress; not so much anymore.

As I'm sure you know, my point was that Snowe's seat moves from solidly R to a good shot at being a D in the next Congress.

Tamar