Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Big Gay (and Democratic) News Where You'd Least Expect It
This DailyKos diary post is primarily about gains made by gays in unexpected places like Utah.
But it's also about the not-so-coincidental fact that Democrats in many of these places (like Oregon) managed to make big gains at the local level -- gains that got swept under the rug by the national media's eagerness to emphasize the scope of the GOP's alleged "mandate".
I mean, I knew about Montana and Minnesota. But not about Oregon, or about the fact that the Massachusetts Democrats had not only survived a HUGE blitz by the GOP (who in some locales outspent them by over five to one), but gained more ground, replacing several Republican legislators with Democrats.
Democrats did very well in the local ground game in 2004. The national results stank, largely because the national corporate media is in the GOP's hip pocket. But with the advent of Air America and Ed Schultz, that's starting to change. 2006 will be a different story on the national level, I suspect.
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