Not Fade Away

[fatman]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003645720_clout01.html

[BT]

Congressional elections are every two years. It is still a reliable region for the GOP. The South shall rise again.

[fatman]

True enough BT, though I think that the main focus was that there weren't so many Southerners being consistently re-elected, through retirements and such.  I wonder though, with the last two Presidents being from the South (Bush is marginal Southerner, I know) and possibly the next, if it is the maturation of Southern politics.  Since Kennedy, there have been 2 New Englanders/East Coasters (Kennedy and Bush 1.0), 4 Southerners (Johnson, Carter, Clinton and Bush 2.0), 2 Westerners (Nixon and Reagan, though they're Californians actually), and one Midwesterner (Ford).  It seems to me that the South had quite a run.

[BT]

True enough BT, though I think that the main focus was that there weren't so many Southerners being consistently re-elected, through retirements and such.

In my district we have a two term congressman, elected to replace Johnny Isakson, who won a Senate seat and who had replaced Newt Gingrich in 98. Georgia's other Senator rose from the congression ranks 4 years ago, I don't recall who he was replaced with. In Georgia there are a couple of districts that seesaw back and forth but the majority are pretty stable.

The South will elect blue dog democrats in the mold of Heath Shuyler and Jim Marshall, but i don't think they are treated well by the national party if the way they treated Zell Miller is any indication.

[Plane]

What did we loose when Sam Nunn retired?

[BT]

What did we loose when Sam Nunn retired?

http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/senators/one_item_and_teasers/georgia.htm

Nunn was no longer Armed Services Committee Chair when he retired. I'm pretty sure the GOP held the Senate at that time.