How can Democrats increase their lead in the House and the Senate?
It is heartening to note that the number of Regressives(*) in the House is now under two hundred - i.e. 199 to be exact, after yesterday's "shocking" (to the Regressives, I mean - not to the rest of us!) defeat of a Regressive in MS-01
The question is - what can the Democrats do to limit the Regressives to under 150 House seats and under 40 Senate seats? Is it possible to do it? As a voter registered under the "Decline to State" category, I believe part of the answer is to have Obama as the Democratic Presidential candidate and it looks like he will be the nominee from the Democratic side (at least we hope so!).
Or is it impossible in today's gerrymandered America, where at best some 30-40 House seats are in play, and the rest are all solidly Democratic or solidly Regressive?
What are your thoughts?
(*) I use the term "Regressive" instead of "conservative" or "Republican" because that is what they are. Just look at the dictionary definition :
Regressive (aka Retrogressive) : 1. Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state. 2. Tending to return to an earlier, inferior, or less complex condition. 3. Tending to go or move backward.
I think "regressive" is the term we should use to describe those who want to take us backward in time so the gains we made in terms of civil rights, women's rights, worker's rights are all erased off. It also juxtaposes well against "progressive", which of course, is the opposite of "regressive". Over a period of time "regressive" can become as dirty a word as the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity have successfully turned the word "liberal" into.