ElectBlue: Refocused and Retooled for the 2009-2010 Election Cycle

After a taking a break (with limited posting) during the Thanksgiving-to-Inauguration period, the ElectBlue team is back in place and focused on the 2009-2010 election cycle. We are geared up for same high level of posting we accomplished in the the 2008 election cycle. Our goals are now slightly different, of course, but they remain simple and straightforward:

1. To support President Obama in the enactment of his progressive legislative agenda;

2. To increase Democratic majorities in both the US House and the US Senate. 

3. To give an increased focus on Tennessee politics, as Tennessee is our home base.

4. To target certain gubernatorial contests in 2009 and 2010,

Over the next several days we will be commenting about and posting on numerous developments that have occurred during our winter break,

Two Not-So-Trivial Political Questions

Question #1: When was the last time Democrats won more than fifty percent of the votes cast for members of the US House of Representatives?  

Answer: November 4, 2008.

Question #2: When was the last time Republicans won more than fifty percent of the votes cast for members of the US House of Representatives?

Answer: November 5, 1946. 

Yes, you're reading that correctly. The Republican Party has not won a majority of votes cast in US House races in more than sixty years. 

So much for all the blather about America being a center-right country.

h/t: OpenLeft

Quote of the Day

Woodrow Wilson, speaking nearly one hundred years ago, displayed an uncanny prescience about the actions of the current Republican members of the US House of Representatives:

"A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible."