Nearly entire town in New Jersey becomes Democrats

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Monday October 22, 2007 · 1:31 PM PDT

2007/10/22 · 13:31

Dont think I have ever seen anything like THIS before.

Talk about a look into the eye of America:

In a rare shift in party affiliation, the entire membership of the all-Republican governing body in Lyndhurst will switch from Republican to Democrat tomorrow. Nearly 60% of Lyndhurst’s Republican County Committee will become Democrats too.

Seriously? More than half of the elected Republicans in a town switching? Has anything like this ever happened before?

The party realignment, first reported in PoliticsNJ.com last summer, is far greater in scope than speculated. It represents, perhaps, the most massive shift in Party affiliation of elected and Party officials in a single community in one day. "It’s safe to say something like this certainly doesn’t happen in politics everyday," said Lyndhurst Mayor Richard DiLascio.

This is unprecedented. Now let's see if the traditional media give this as much attention as a "bellweather" as they did to the Jindal victory in Louisiana.

Oh, and one last item from the article:

Lyndhurst has long been considered a swing town in general elections over the last twenty years.

"Swing town Republicans switch and become Democrats." I sure like the sound of that...

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