That said, it will be very difficult for Labor candidates, even good ones like Bore, to win region-wide in the Northeast now that they have bussed half of their voters down south, as unfortunate as that may be.
Bore is a trans-partisan figure and his service to the region won him respectable support from outside the Labor Party. Judging by the size of the Northeast, it certainly should be the region with the most inter-party cooperation and non-partisan attitudes, unless something has changed.
As someone who crossed party lines
to vote for Bore and has been at the center of Northeast politics for about as long as I've been here (besides my stint in DC when I was President), I'd have to agree. The inter-party cooperation and non-partisan attitudes have always existed here and have nothing to do with our size. The Mideast and IDS have been close to us in population, I think maybe the Mideast surpassed us once, but they haven't come close to us in cooperation. I'm not being critical of these regions, I think the polarization in the IDS is healthy for the region even if I think you went too far getting it there.
I look forward to seeing Bore around here in the future- he's a great contributor and I like the way he approaches legislating. I just wanted to point out that the deck is stacked, so to speak. Bore will have to work harder now that Alfred and all the others have abandoned us.
