Was Atlas less partisan in the past?

[IceSpear]

I was looking through the past endorsements, and it's pretty striking how different they were. Granted, Dems still won the overwhelming majority of races, but it was much less partisan than now. Some examples:

In 2006, Atlas endorsed:
Schwarzenegger
Rell
Lingle
Douglas
Came 1 vote away from endorsing Topinka
Snowe (by 76-20, an even larger margin than she won re-election by in the real world)
Lieberman (??!?!?!?!?!)
Came only a few votes away from endorsing Kean, Jr. and Kay Bailey Hutchinson

In 2008:
Rossi
Douglas again
Coleman (and it wasn't particularly close)
Collins (won on Atlas by a bigger margin than she won re-election by in the real world, despite the fact that she currently trails Bellows in 2014).
Came 3 votes away from endorsing Jeff Beatty over John Kerry?

2009:
Christie
Came 2 votes away from endorsing McDonnell

2010:
Sandoval
Haslam
Hoeven

Since then, it's been solidly Democratic. In 2012, the only Republican to get an endorsement was Corker (technically a tie with the Green Party) and so far in 2014, Alexander. Buono even beat Christie in 2013. Were there just more Republicans in the past, or has Atlas become polarized just like the rest of the American public?

[tik 🪀✨]

It was differently partisan.

Go browse through the 2004 boards sometime.

[Bacon King]

There were a lot more GOP hacks and also those were the peak years of Moderate Heroism in the Forum Democratic Caucus

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

There were a lot more GOP hacks and also those were the peak years of Moderate Heroism in the Forum Democratic Caucus

But there were also Republicans who were worth supporting.

[bgwah]

No. The partisans may have been more equally split between Democrats and Republicans, but they were still partisans.

[Mechaman]

2006: This was the era when Moderate Heroism was in vogue and many Democrats thought that John McCain would be the next Teddy Roosevelt or some sh*t and would win in 2008 in a landslide against Hillary Clinton, who the nation would see for the super liberal bitter hack she was.

Enough said.

[Mechaman]

2006: This was the era when Moderate Heroism was in vogue and many Democrats thought that John McCain would be the next Teddy Roosevelt or some sh*t and would win in 2008 in a landslide against Hillary Clinton, who the nation would see for the super liberal bitter hack she was.

Enough said.

Though to be fair, there were also those who thought that Mark Warner would win in 2008.  So yeah there's that.

[Mr. Morden]

2006: This was the era when Moderate Heroism was in vogue and many Democrats thought that John McCain would be the next Teddy Roosevelt or some sh*t and would win in 2008 in a landslide against Hillary Clinton, who the nation would see for the super liberal bitter hack she was.

Enough said.

Though to be fair, there were also those who thought that Mark Warner would win in 2008.  So yeah there's that.

This thread is fun in retrospect:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=39456.0

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

2006: This was the era when Moderate Heroism was in vogue and many Democrats thought that John McCain would be the next Teddy Roosevelt or some sh*t and would win in 2008 in a landslide against Hillary Clinton, who the nation would see for the super liberal bitter hack she was.

Enough said.

Though to be fair, there were also those who thought that Mark Warner would win in 2008.  So yeah there's that.

This thread is fun in retrospect:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=39456.0

Tender Branson's Atlas debut!

[Paul Kemp]

Mark Warner 2008

[they don't love you like i love you]

Lewis' post in that thread is correct.

[IceSpear]

There were a lot more GOP hacks and also those were the peak years of Moderate Heroism in the Forum Democratic Caucus

Even so, it's still pretty appalling that Joe Lieberman of all people got the Atlas endorsement.

There were a lot more GOP hacks and also those were the peak years of Moderate Heroism in the Forum Democratic Caucus

But there were also Republicans who were worth supporting.

Well, I don't think Susan Collins changed very much in the past 6 years.

[IceSpear]

2006: This was the era when Moderate Heroism was in vogue and many Democrats thought that John McCain would be the next Teddy Roosevelt or some sh*t and would win in 2008 in a landslide against Hillary Clinton, who the nation would see for the super liberal bitter hack she was.

Enough said.

Though to be fair, there were also those who thought that Mark Warner would win in 2008.  So yeah there's that.

This thread is fun in retrospect:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=39456.0

Wow, that was a fun read. Here's some gems from it:

Given the list, Hillary Clinton.  I want Mark Warner, but knowing Democrats, we will likely get stuck with either Hillary or Russ Feingold. 

Currently has a "Hillary for president" sig.

Mark Warner or Evan Bayh, because Democrats need to realize that leftists like Hillary (despite the fact that she pretends to be moderate) can't win national elections.

Wow, it's like I'm on an entirely different forum!

Clinton is vastly overrated.  After 8 years  of Bush, people are  going to  be tired of political familes.

If Hillary runs, she'll probably run 5th or 6th.   The main contest is likely to be  Warner and Feingold.

Warner  40%
Feingold 25%
Bayh       10%
Vilsack    10%
Richardson 5%
Clinton    5%
Someone else 5%

John Edwards will have a pretty good chance of winning if he runs.

hahaha . . . please, please, please let Edwards run.    Allen would win in a landslide and we could avoid the national division caused by the closeness in the past two elections. 

Hillary--but then she'll lose in a landslide (to Chuck Hagel).

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Not a single mention of Obama, which is the funniest part.

[Paul Kemp]

I had started this thread awhile back to repost old threads like the one above, which are all pretty funny now. Think it would be a good time to try and liven it up.