Right up you alley. Comments?
"And Hackett made it close. Schmidt won with only 52% of the vote compared to 48% for Hackett. And yet, despite the Democrat nominee's relatively high vote count in this Republican district, his loss should come as further discouraging news to national Democrats who hope beyond all hope to take back the House of Representatives someday.
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The Right of Center didn't vote and Hackett did not say he was a Republican.
I guess the RAT strategy in 2006 is not to tell America that they are Democrats. I would be willing to bet that in the future we will see alot more of this to a point where the ACLU will sue to take party affiliation off all public displays.
The author posits that the partisan split will be a repeat of 2004. I tend to doubt that. There will be a six year itch. I suspect the GOP will lose 5-10 seats in the House. That of course is subject to change as time passes.