Buoyed by recent wins, Democrats eye Southern seats (voters, Republican, conservative)

[cottonwood2420]

ksl.com - Buoyed by recent wins, Democrats eye Southern seats

[18Montclair]

This time around, its a valid possibility. Strange but true.

It seems like we're on the verge of a major shifting of party ideals. Not sure what to make of it just yet.

[Frankie117]

Great, so now the Democrats are going to exploit the South? They could at least take a better approach to it, or at least that article could have by not using the word 'exploit'.

Anywho, I can see where they are getting support from though, a lot of us typical Republican voters are also rather frustrated with the status quo. It's going to be rough these next few years as more and more Conservatives make the crossover to Democrat.

[VMH2507]

I have to refute at least one of the conclusions in the referenced article. I live in one of the districts where the Democrat is retiring. I can practically guarantee you that it will go Rep because is in a heavily Rep district. The only reason that the incumbent Dem held the seat was that he was a very well liked Conservative Democrat. The article erroneously states that they could only get one barely qualified Rep to run for the vacated seat. In fact there are 4 Rep and 2 Dem running and a number appear to be well qualified. There was only one Rep prior to the incumbents unexpected retirement. Makes me wonder how much else is error or out dated.

[marysally]

I am also familiar with one of the races where they say that the Democratic candidate is the frontrunner. He is an MD who had his hospital priviledges rescinded for some impropriety. A Democratic friend who works at that hospital knows the details and has said that she would never vote for him. He went into politics after that I guess because a doctor without hosp priviledges would have a hard time making a living. The district is also heavily Republican.