Recently, two South Carolina representative districts switched from having a Democratic member, to having a Republican member.
On May 15, Representative Dennis Moss of the 29th district announced he was switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party. See this story. He had been re-elected in November 2008 as a Democrat, receiving 53.3% of the vote in a two-party race.
On April 30, South Carolina had held a special election in the adjacent 30th district to fill a vacancy. Although the Democrats had won the 30th district in November 2008 with 54.7% of the vote, at the special election, Republican nominee Steve Moss was elected with 53.6% of the vote in a two-party race. It is not known if the two new Republicans, both with a surname of Moss, are related.
Yet another sign of the stagnation of the Republican Party. As they say, a rolling stone gathers no Moss, so this must mean the Republican Party is not going anywhere.
So, Republicans gaining two seats is now stagnation?
Did the Fuhrer Obama tell you that?
Do the two have any relation?
Did you even see the “rolling stone gathers no Moss” bit? It was intended to be a (admittedly quite terrible) pun.
Calm down.
Superficially, these two ‘events’ may seem random or unrelated. My hope is that the national and state republican party were proactive in achieving these changes and, further, that these same organizations have a well-defined/well-developed national/state strategy to oust as many vulnerable house democrats as possible in 10′.