Many of them are from Republican districts. I don't think they will move to the left right away, at least not in the first two year. If they do, they will say goodbye to their offices in 2008.
Some will have to move left, no matter what, to push through the radical left agenda of pelosi and the radical leftist chairmen of the house committees.
pelosi and emannueal are probably right now figuring out a voting matrix for these new "dems", so that some can be "protected", but still to get to the magic number of 218, some of these new democrats will have to vote for the radical agenda pelosi wishes to ram down the throat of the country.
It's all smoke and mirrors, but what else to expect from the democrats.
"Many of them are from Republican districts. I don't think they will move to the left right away, at least not in the first two year. If they do, they will say goodbye to their offices in 2008."
Which is actually a benefit of having conservative Democrats in red districts. They know darn well that if they stray too far from conservatism, they'll lose in the next election.
How many times have conservatives complained about so-called RINOs who run on conservative rhetoric and then do the exact opposite when they get into office? A conservative Democrat in that same district doesn't have the privilege of a nice, safely gerrymandered district. Their position is not secure, and they know it.