Well, my home state Tennessee turned an even darker shade of red this election.

[predfan]

I didn't expect Obama to carry the state, Gore couldn't even carry the state in 2004. But I didn't expect to wake up to both the House and Senate being controlled by the Republicans.

Since we're facing a deficit of about $800 million ( by law, we have to have a balanced budget each year, thank God) I now get to e-mail my new Republican lawmakers every day to pressure them. Let them face the heat of slashing budgets or , God forbid, raising taxes.( Can't raise sales taxes much more without a constitutional amendment, I think) So what about it, guys?

Time to make lemonade out of lemons.

[Narkos]

1. Sheesh! My wife wants to move down there too!

Where do you live in TN by the way?

[predfan]

4. Middle Tenn, between Nashville and Chattanooga...........Hey, don't let some wacky

politics keep you from moving here, we've got a great state. Not perfect, but great.

[asjr]

8. I am in Middle TN also and I knew McCain

would win the vote for president but was actually surprised at the legislative outcome. I don't know why. I do know the "good old boy" attitude prevails in this state. One legislator I thought would lose was re-elected. Sometimes I think the ones who live here only live here in body and not soul.

[predfan]

10. Wait till the Republicans redraw the districts in a couple of years............

bye bye Bart Gordon.

[kirby]

2. Would I be okay to blame Harold Ford?

When he is on TV as a Democratic example from TN, why not just vote for the Republican.

[Pithlet]

3. I know.

I was happy for my fellow DUers rejoicing in their red states turned blue. It gives me hope. But it's still hard to see results like that. I don't want to give up on my adopted home.

[crispini]

5. Lord, try living in Texas. Although we did better this year than 4 years ago.

However, we shortly expect an inundation of ex-Washington repubs. Oh, joy. :sarcasm:

[Peacetrain]

6. I wouldn't worry too much.. the NE went solid blue.. here in Iowa

we are as deep a blue as you can get now. The ying and the yang. If the republican party limits itself to being a regional party, it just adds to its own destruction. The fact that we took the coastal states of Va and NC, sort of makes me think, we just have some fear factors of change moving along that Tenn. KY border.

Time will weed them out.

[predfan]

7. Forty years is a blimp on the screen of history, and that's how long it's taken

for the so called "Southern strategy" to come back and bite the Republican Party in the butt.

They're absolutely so marginalized right now that they couldn't win a national election unless they completely retool their whole party. Couldn't happen to nicer folks.

[Peacetrain]

9. Yep, they really went down a negative path.. following limbaugh

and his hatred of moderates. They absolutely gave us this election with their own fears. Not taking anything away from the awesome campagin of Obama, but the right has actually been imploding for the last 8 years, they just stayed together out of fear. Now the fun begins. No one hates those right wing hell hounds more than republicans who feel they destroyed the very essence of the party .

There is a war going on between the Big Tent and the Troglodytes of that party.

[Bryn]

11. same with Arkansas

x(

Anyway, my two very good friends want to check out Morristown, TN to live. What is it like there? Is it nice?