Here in Tennessee, our elections are simply not to be believed anymore. When Memphis (one of the blackest and bluest cities in this country) (s)elects an entirely white, Republican slate of county officials last August, no one -- no one -- believes the result.
When Republican leaders last fall predicted a two to three seat pick-up in our legislature and they pick up 14 (including (s)electing overt racists, pug-ugly jackals and areola-revealing Hooters girls), no one believes it.
When Lincoln Davis, my US Congressman and a serious and seriously handsome DINO, loses to a neophyte neurotic wife abuser and certifiably the ugliest person ever elected to Congress, no one believes it.
Memphis is black as black can be, since everyone who could long ago escaped to the suburbs, but many of the suburbs are in Shelby County, and overall the racial makeup is almost exactly 50-50. Incarcerations swing the balance to the white side. The county commission has 13 members, of which seven are white devils.
DUmmy Bernie is lamenting a big step backward in any hopes for legal dope in Tennessee, although the chances were already nil.
Republican pickups in the 2010 election went beyond anyone's predictions in nearly every state, because the predictions were made without realizing what a truly awful mess the jug-eared Kenyan was creating, nor how motivated his opposition was.
Everyone knows that Republicans are either racists, or pug-ugly, and many of us have a strong preference for areola-flashing women, especially if they're attractive enought to land a gig at Hooters, so that makes how we select our candidates understandable.
On the last item, Bernie has a point. The neophyte neurotic who sent Lincoln Davis to the showers may well be the ugliest man in the Congress, if you exempt Henry Waxman. But he's also a conservative medical doctor, so he may also be the smartest man in the Congress. I guess the democrat problem was their candidate just wasn't progressive enough.
