[Happy2BMe]

""It's sad the way the Democratic Party has drifted," Conners said. "Long before today, my father would have been dismayed at the things that have happened. ... He would understand what I've done."

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YES! - ping!

[tkathy]

This is why the reps must become big tent, and leave behind the rigid ideological social issues. If they become big tent, they will rule the country for decades.

[tjwmason]

Asking a serious question. Have there been any major defections from the Republicans to the Democrats in recent times?

As an observer of American politics from afar (over the pond) it strikes me that whilst the media are painting the Republicans as extremist right-wingers; the actual shift is of the Democratic Party to the left.

Also, it strikes me that there has been some development of an ideological divide between the parties (this was always less pronounced in American politics than in Europe, and the Commonwealth).

[ovrtaxt]

So he's a Republican. Big whoop!

Is he a conservative? Or just another leftist who waters down the GOP?