tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post2524222467420782085..comments2024-03-28T00:01:43.037-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: Some Old Posts, Newly RelevantGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-35330195502686537052012-02-02T18:26:03.627-05:002012-02-02T18:26:03.627-05:00I don't know what to make of most political pr...I don't know what to make of most political prognostication.<br /><br />Usually they are made with an unspoken caveat of "assuming nothing else changes".<br /><br />And the "nothing else changing" part is rarely entirely true.<br /><br />With that in mind, I think the general level of discontent with the status quo dominated the outcomes in 2006 and 2008...and in 2010.<br /><br />But those purges from half a decade ago likely did deepen the hurts to the Democratic party in 2010. <br /><br />(I'm told that certain portions of the Democratic Party felt as if they were the subject of a purge in the early '90s when Bob Casey, Sr. was snubbed. Since then, there hasn't been any voice for the pro-life movement in the nationwide Democratic Party. Does this mean that there have been successive purges in Dem-party history?)<br /><br />How this will play out in the future is beyond my abilities to predict.karrdehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00205160745963596856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-31147882756655641642012-02-01T15:19:35.083-05:002012-02-01T15:19:35.083-05:00I had only been living for a year in Chicago when ...I had only been living for a year in Chicago when at their national convention the Democratic party unseated a delegation of party regulars led by Mayor Daley I and seated a group led by Jesse Jackson. How did that work out for the election of 1968?RonFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346484258194484053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-36364818996903690292012-02-01T10:46:32.038-05:002012-02-01T10:46:32.038-05:00Well, I don't think it could be fairly said th...Well, I don't think it could be fairly said that the purists in the Dem party have prevailed. Neither taking Congress nor getting a D in the Oval Office resulted in moving the party or the country wildly to the left.<br /><br />If anything, I would argue that the base are increasingly feeling ignored by the folks they elected. But then that's a feature, not a bug in my view :pCassnoreply@blogger.com