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Republicans live hard in New England

Date published: 11/10/2008

IN AMERICA last week, the Grand Old Party got a drubbing. In New England it got extinction, at least of the species called House Republicans. The loss of Rep. Chris Shays in Connecticut will mean that in the next House of Representatives, only Democrats will represent that state, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.

"Big tent" politics are usually cheered, but ideological acceptability in New England fits in a pup tent with enough room left over to sleep a blue whale. Mr. Shays often enraged fellow Republicans by supporting abortion, but not gun, rights; authoring campaign-finance legislation, and sounding warnings about climate change. He did, however, back the president's war policy in Iraq. That evidently sealed his Election Day fate.

Yet New Englanders seem nonpartisan in their intolerance of deviation from left-think. In 2006, Connecticut D's dumped Sen. Joe Lieberman, a stout liberal who even so seeks victory in Iraq, forcing him to run as an independent.



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Date published: 11/10/2008


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Coincidence (posted by AtackDuck , Nov. 12, 2008 11:38 am)   
Perhaps not, but education has never been directly associated with wisdom and has lately been more associated with sheepish group-think.

I wonder if it's a coincidence... (posted by joekavalier , Nov. 11, 2008 12:05 am)   
...that the most highly educated region of the country is also the most consistently Democratic.

Ooops (posted by lifeisbeautiful , Nov. 10, 2008 7:31 am)   
Meant to say "doesn't sound" not "does sound."

Shays does sound (posted by lifeisbeautiful , Nov. 10, 2008 7:30 am)   
much like a Republican at all. Politicians, gotta love those guys. I think we actually have one party, the Knuckle head Party.

Don't Be Gloomy, Republicans. (posted by UsefulIdiot , Nov. 10, 2008 6:41 am)   
The party did very well in states where very few people live (Kansas, Wyoming, South Dakota, etc) and in Appalachia (which is first in a lot of things most of us don't want to be first in)..

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