Reply #7: I think we should be [View All]

[last_texas_dem]

We came w/i 4-percentage pts. (less than 4,000 votes) in a solid red district, a district that gave Shrub 64-percent of the vote last November and where a Dem hasn't run this well in over thirty years. Granted, Hackett was an atypically strong candidate in some ways: Marine, Iraq veteran, strong presence; but at the same time he didn't play too safe either- but still managed to pull 48-percent in a Shrub-worshipping district even after he called the Chimp a "son of a bitch" and said that his "Bring it on" commment was one of the stupidest things he'd ever heard.

Sure, a victory in this special election would have been a nice prelude to the '06 elections, but I'll take the surprisingly strong showing that we got. Some areas of the country would vote for Shrub and his minions if he had sexual relations with a goat on live TV and there was a large concentration of those sort of voters in OH-2. The thing is, Hackett obviously managed to pull a sizeable portion of the saner residents of the district who typically vote Repug. Pulling enough of the saner Repugs (and there are still a decent amount of them left in this country- why they still haven't realized the party they're supporting is composed of a bunch of lunatics I'm not sure) to vote for the Dems in '06 is all it will take to really start the tide turning with the next election.