Ain't no more big tent parties... Ya' have the Dems with purdy much a progressive base and then you have the Repubs with a Tea Bagger/Birther base... The rest are middle'uns... But what we have seen in recent years is the Dems at election time being able to come off as more moderate while the Repubs more and more extreme... This bodes well for Dems in future elections but in all reality the Democratic Party is purdy much what Will Rogers said about it: "I don't belong to any organized political party. I'm a Democrat"... Some things never change...

As for William Dailey??? If loosing only one Southern Dem representative after the recent and historic fight in Congress over health care reform is the final toll then I'd say the Dems withstood it fairly well... I would have thought more like a dozen...

B~