New England now free of Republicans in Congress

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It's much worse: w/ 3? Reps going down in NY, the entire NY-NE area now has 3 Republicans and 49 Democrats, unless I am mistaken. Even if one adds NJ, it will still be staggering 8 Republicans and 57 Democrats.

Reps also lost NY Senate and DE House. I still don't know the results for PA, but if Dems manage to hold the House there (and don't lose ME), the only legislative chamber anywhere between DC and the Canadian border might be the PA Senate.

While it is still too early to call the Reps a regional party, it might be time to call it a regionless one

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Perhaps, it's time to think of creating a new second party for the region?

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Perhaps, it's time to think of creating a new second party for the region?

That's only worked twice in the last century, AFAIK (Farmer-Labor in MN and the NPL in ND).

The thing is, the conditions seem to be perfect here. NE does not have any real impediments to democracy (it is not the old Solid South).  Given the near death of the R party in the region, it should not be hard to compete. And there are signs this is happening. There is Sanders (and a bunch of his supporters in VT legislature). There is Lieberman in CT. Actually, it seems an independent is managing to get into the MA House this time (still not called, though). The space is there - either the local Republicans do something, or it will be taken.

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Who needs two parties to have a democracy?  Not us.

The thought of any place as populated as New England voting single-party in the 21st century is beyond repugnant. Perhaps we will need to bus twenty-something Freedom Riders at the risk of their lives into the region to register suppressed right-leaning voters there.

Or else, run a Communist slate in Cambridge