[Behind Liberal Lines]

As I touched upon in my initial post, the problem for Ithaca democrats (like Robertson) is that their locality is so far to the left that it makes it difficult for them to fathom how far out of the mainstream they are.

They think Obama is a moderate for goodness sake.

So they don’t realize just how difficult it would for them to run successfully in a center-right district.

I also think that this causes problems for the state and national democrat parties because, if they don’t know the above, they see someone like Robertson and think “here’s a democrat that got elected in a rural county, she must have broad appeal.” Little do they realize that Ithaca is ten square miles surrounded by reality.

[jalisco555]

Little do they realize that Ithaca is ten square miles surrounded by reality.

Ain't that the truth. The recent effort to fix the problem of being overrun by deer via tubal ligation and ovary removal instead of hunting are just the latest evidence of this.

[Liz]

......the problem for Ithaca democrats (like Robertson) is that their locality is so far to the left that it makes it difficult for them to fathom how far out of the mainstream they are. They think Obama is a moderate, for goodness sake (cue laugh machine). .....lamebrain Dummies at the DNC see Robertson and think "a democrat elected in a rural county must have broad appeal.” (So D/W/S phoned-in.) Little do they realize that Ithaca is ten square miles surrounded by reality. ..... Their recent effort to fix the deer problem was tubal ligation and ovary removal instead of hunting......

N-i-c-e take, guys....deserves a repeat.