Is this true? RE: What the DLC has cost us [View All]

[Jolene]

Sam Smith: The Party's Over
Thursday, 7 November 2002, 1:31 pm
Opinion: Undernews

The Party's Over

Undernews Commentary – By Sam Smith
http://www.prorev.com

snip

Of course, you can argue about such things, but there was something else - also unreported - that you couldn't argue about: the disintegration of the Democratic Party itself. An analysis I did in 1998 found that during Clinton's administration, the Democrats had lost:

- 48 seats in the House

- 8 seats in the Senate

- 11 governorships

- 1,254 state legislative seats

- Control of 9 legislatures

In addition 439 elected Democrats had joined the Republican Party while only three Republican officeholders had gone the other way.

While Democrats had been losing state legislative seats on the state level for 25 years, the loss during the Clinton years was striking. In 1992, the Democrats controlled 17 more state legislatures than the Republicans. After November 2000, the Republicans controlled one more than the Democrats. It was the first time since 1954 that the GOP had controlled more state legislatures than the Democrats (they tied in 1968).

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00042.htm

This doesn't even count the governorship of CA, and any losses since the article was written.

For a review of the powergrab undertaken by the DLC and how it renders the primaries pretty much useless, read the following and ask yourself whether the People are represented when 'SuperDelegate' status has been expanded at least once:

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/conventions/chicago/facts/rules/index.shtml