Letters to the Editor
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Don't Read Too Much Into the Stats
While these stats may hold up for Presidential elections, they offer cold comfort to the Democratic party when it comes to Congressional elections. The party must not only win the Presidential race. It needs to expand it's thin majorities in the House and in the Senate. Doing that will require some attention to middle of the road voters and some erosion into traditional Republican demographic groups, especially if the party wants to hold on to Bue Dog seats in the South.
It pisses me off to no end to see liberal members of the party complain about Blue Dog Democrats and other moderates (who are far more conservative than I am, too, by the way). But without them, there is no majority in either the House or the Senate. A party has to be a coalition of broad interest groups and ideologies or it just doesn't work. If you need any evidence of that, you need look no further than today's Republican party which has abandoned it's moderates.