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Don’t forget that the South was solid Democrat for a long time. That was broken up back in the 60s and has been pretty conservative since.

I know what you mean, and I’m not saying it’s going to change overnight. It may change in time though.

Man, I hate sounding so pessimistic... Maybe it's living in a conservative cocoon, surrounded by liberal towns and cities nearly everywhere I look...

I've been complaining for years that Bush has destroyed the GOP and conservatives, for years (decades?) to come... In the past, we've fought back against the Dem lies, but during the past 8 years, there was none of that. All of the debates are one-sides... (tax cuts favor the rich, the war was concocted for political purposes, Bush/Cheney told lie after lie after lie, we want to cut all social programs, don't care about the poor, party of the rich, party of war, we're the mean, insensitive party, etc etc etc)... By not fighting back, Bush and Cheney did us a great disservce... All of these lies have been cemented as truth in the eyes of most voters...

Add to it the increasingly brazen partisan all-powerful (yes, still all-powerful) MSM that supports everything the libs do... Sprinkle on Americans' newly found ability to focus for seconds at a time on things like politics, getting much of their news from headlines or soundbites, cause it's easier than doing the heavy-lifting and sifting through the lies to get to the truth

Add to it the fact that the GOP has behaved like libs with spending and immigration, and we've doomed our party... On top of that, throw in tens of millions of new immigrant/citizens... guess which way they're going to vote...

Tell me again where we should be optimistic in terms of political direction?

If you want to know how far we've really fallen, we're likely to elect a President who's used several drgs, may have been involved with Sinclair, is mus, has attended services for 20 years at a hateful rac preacher, has him marryhim baptize his kids, calls him his spiritual advisor... someone who has NO accomplishments throughout his career...

The media has successfully portrayed him as the next messiah, and made him wholly electable in the eye of a plurality of Americans... and again, Bush and Cheney, and the GOP leadership, including McCain, allow this to continue.

There's NO better example, IMHO, of how far we've fallen, and how disgustingly powerful the MSM is.