Even if you don’t like your own personal Democrat, you should still be voting for the Democrats to retain control of Congress. Why? The simple numbers are out, and according to the HRC’s new scorecards:
Republican congressional opposition to gay issues, such as repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell,” strengthened over the last two years and will likely continue in the next Congress with more conservative GOP lawmakers being elected. The Human Rights Campaign, the top gay lobby, has issued a score card that graded 32 Republican senators and 139 House members with a zero on gay-issue voting. By comparison, 17 Senate and 91 House Democrats scored 100. Overall, the average score for all 435 House members was 50.8; among the 100 senators, it was 57.3.
Sounds like a no-brainer to me. Follow the above link to see the scorecards for yourselves.
I mean, by all means, if it makes you feel better to Teach Your Democrat A Lesson by handing power to bigots who have also proven their incompetence on most other issues*, knock yourself out, but if you’re a serious voter, those are the cold, hard facts.
*YES, other issues exist!
I tend to agree, but the question of party loyalty is not so simple in some races, and especially in governors’ races.
In Rhode Island, the Democratic candidate for governor is an antigay, anti-environmental corporatist, Frank “Shove It” Caprio, who enjoys almost no support among the state’s Democratic leaders and popular interest groups. The Democratic establishment and pro-equality groups support independent Lincoln Chafee (who is favored to win) or Moderate Party candidate Kenneth Block. Chafee was leading in the polls; Caprio is running third, behind the GOP borrow-and-spend bigot. Block hasn’t got a chance, but he might be a suitable protest option for social/environmental liberals who want to vote for an outsider and fiscal conservative.
Luckily for Democrats, this R.I. governor’s race has no direct impact on Congress. But in other states, I would not be surprised to learn of a few House and Senate races where the independent candidate is not only more favorable to individual rights and equality, but also more popular than the Democrat or Republican.
[...] friend Evan Hurst over at Truth Wins Out covers HRC’s new Congressional scorecards. He says, “I mean, by all means, if it makes [...]
Well, that’s a governor’s race, which is, granted, a bit different in terms of the architecture of how things are run.