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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
The irony is that many of the Republicans who lost were moderates in the Northeast and Midwest, finally dragged down by their association with the conservatives. The Republicans left in Congress will be even more conservative. Which is going to make it that much harder for them to elect the next generation of Lincoln Chafees and Nancy Johnsons.
For the first time in many decades, the party controlling the South will not control Congress.
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Part of the reason those folks lost is because they weren't serving any function any more - the Rs gave them the cold shoulder on appropriations issues, because the Red States were unremittingly muscling into the trough and snorting down as much as they could, and in their home states it was hard to argue that people should keep them around so as to have a voice in the party that controlled Washington. This is particularly true of Rhode Island.
