Chris Shays held on. Nancy Johnson ran a hard right campaign, when she actually isn't hard right, and lost.
Each district is different of course. There are local issues. Pretending that you run the same candidates in Connecticut that you do in Mississippi is pretty silly. The democrats won actually by putting anti abortion candidates up in purple districts or states. They put up pro second amendment candidates in Western States. They played retail politics well. Those who think that there is some perfect conservative candidate that can be cloned and well represent every one of the 435 districts and 50 states is deluding themselves.
Good point. All politics are local and the rats did a fairly decent job of finding some good local candidates who talk a good game about pro-life issues, pro second amendment issues, etc in somewhat red or purple districts or states.
Now we will see if these "new" rats are just big talkers or back up their talk with votes to protect second amendment rights, uphold pro-life issues or against abortion rights, vote against amensty for illegals and tougher border control, etc.
Now they will have a voting record that people and their opponents can hammer them on in '08 if they turn out to be your run of the mill socialist/marxist rat!!! If that is the case, alot of these rats will be out of work in two years, providing the GOP can clean it's own house and get back to its conservative ideas.