... and this soul searching, accurate and rather blunt analysis comes from one of the most liberal rags in the U.S.
Posted on 01/01/2011 9:33:20 PM PST by Zakeet
Georgia Democrats enter the upcoming 2011 session of the General Assembly reeling from a series of defections and facing an uphill climb toward relevance.
The once-dominant party holds 85 of 236 seats in the House and Senate, Democrats’ lowest ebb since Reconstruction. And the number has been slipping.
Since the November election when the party lost control of all statewide offices, nine Democratic legislators have become Republicans, including Athens Rep. Doug McKillip, who switched less than a month after his colleagues elected him chairman of the House Democrats.
Now party leaders are scrambling to find new growth strategies while attempting to be more than a speed bump for the Republican majority.
The task is daunting. Mirroring a trend across the South, much of the state party’s white, rural base has fled to the Republican Party and Democrats have struggled to find attractive candidates for statewide posts they held for generations.
Newly elected House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, D-Atlanta, admits her party’s primary function in the short term will be as a check on the Republican majority’s power.
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The defections by rural, white Democrats continue a trend that’s made the Georgia Democrats a more urban and African-American party. As a result, the power of its African-American Democratic leaders has grown while the party’s statewide influence has dwindled.
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Fifteen years ago, African-Americans made up a third of Democrats in the House. Now they are a two-thirds majority in the House Democratic Caucus and hold most of the leadership positions. In the Senate, African-Americans make up more than half of Democrats compared to one in four in 1996.
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... and this soul searching, accurate and rather blunt analysis comes from one of the most liberal rags in the U.S.
Poor Zero ... doesn’t have much luck with base balls.
America is waking up and ain't gonna take it any more. He's a reverse barometer, as it were.
But we gotta move faster. He is frantic to complete his task: ruin America
“America is waking up and ain’t gonna take it any more. He’s a reverse barometer, as it were.”
If we’re not gonna’ take it anymore why did so many RINOS get re-elected? We’re gonna’ take anything they ram down our throats and we’re gonna’ smile and make excuses just like we did for Bush.
Southern Democrats are literally a minority party and they have no chance of regaining power in the foreseeable future.
I don't suppose the Democrats have considered softening their hatred for traditional America and the traditional family unit, and their communist agenda of big government confiscation and redistribution, and their ACLU-led atheism, and their endorsement of homosexual and perverted lifestyles, including sodomizing the US military, and their relentless attempts to divide America through class warfare - stuff like that?
No, I didn't think so.
Matter 'o fact, I'm sure the rats will double down.
Take a list of names of these defectors and primary their butts out of the GOP before they drag the party further to the left.
bttt
Horse manure.
Look how many got shown the door.
Revitalization doesn't happen overnight, but the battle has been joined and the GOP is getting cleaned up whether the remaining elitists want it or not.
Georgia Democrats are faced with the problem of selling liberal policies to a conservative electorate. Their problem is the people they need to get to vote for them are Reagan Republicans! Against that kind of political math, they’ll be stuck in the political wilderness for a long time.
Georgia Democrats are faced with the problem of selling liberal policies to a conservative electorate. Their problem is the people they need to get to vote for them are Reagan Republicans! Against that kind of political math, they’ll be stuck in the political wilderness for a long time.
Wouldn't that make it the party of no? Gridlock even?
The South has had enough and won't be fooled again.
Her statement points up the Democrats’ complete irrelevancy. With the GOP holding close to two thirds of the seats in both houses of the legislature and every statewide and most county and city offices outside of Atlanta, there’s not much of a check. And the Democrats don’t communicate all that well with Georgians.
Her statement points up the Democrats’ complete irrelevancy. With the GOP holding close to two thirds of the seats in both houses of the legislature and every statewide and most county and city offices outside of Atlanta, there’s not much of a check. And the Democrats don’t communicate all that well with Georgians.
Her statement points up the Democrats’ complete irrelevancy. With the GOP holding close to two thirds of the seats in both houses of the legislature and every statewide and most county and city offices outside of Atlanta, there’s not much of a check. And the Democrats don’t communicate all that well with Georgians.
Her statement points up the Democrats’ complete irrelevancy. With the GOP holding close to two thirds of the seats in both houses of the legislature and every statewide and most county and city offices outside of Atlanta, there’s not much of a check. And the Democrats don’t communicate all that well with Georgians.
Her statement points up the Democrats’ complete irrelevancy. With the GOP holding close to two thirds of the seats in both houses of the legislature and every statewide and most county and city offices outside of Atlanta, there’s not much of a check. And the Democrats don’t communicate all that well with Georgians.
Her statement points up the Democrats’ complete irrelevancy. With the GOP holding close to two thirds of the seats in both houses of the legislature and every statewide and most county and city offices outside of Atlanta, there’s not much of a check. And the Democrats don’t communicate all that well with Georgians.
Her statement points up the Democrats’ complete irrelevancy. With the GOP holding close to two thirds of the seats in both houses of the legislature and every statewide and most county and city offices outside of Atlanta, there’s not much of a check. And the Democrats don’t communicate all that well with Georgians.
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