[EDINVA]

“If Sterns was a great conservative why was he defeated?”

Because the geniuses in the FL legislature (the very ones who redistricted Col. West) moved Stearns’s district so that it didn’t include his home town and base of support. Good to have a GOP majority in the legislature, isn’t it? Dems in the majority would NEVER do that to their own. Stupid Republicans.

[fieldmarshaldj]

There was a Dem-supported redistricting law approved by voters in FL that prevented the Republican majority from having a free hand in drawing the lines (forced to draw within certain parameters). The state GOP was just as unhappy as we are, because it gave the Dem seats. There are no such similar "protections" for Republicans in Dem-leaning states.