In the November elections, Democrats lost their eight-year Senate majority, and saw their House numbers fall to the lowest level in seven decades. In the states, Republicans will hold 31 governorships, and more state legislative seats than theyve had since 1928. It especially vexes Democrats to see Republicans dominate the U.S. House delegations and the state governments in several states that President Barack Obama won, including huge legislative majorities in Florida, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. I think theres a lot of frustration, said Rep. John Yarmuth, a Kentucky Democrat who said the party has failed to do something that I think represents an opportunity for us. We really havent talked to the American people about what government does for them. The big gap between Democratic success at the presidential level and elsewhere is a real dilemma, I think, for democracy really, not just the Democratic Party, said Rep. David Price of North Carolina, a 14-term congressman and former Duke University political scientist. He said Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Virginia display the most egregious examples of gerrymandered districts for congressional and state legislative races. news.yahoo/diminished-congress-many-states-dems-weigh-future-082535480--politics.html
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 22:09:40 +0000
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