re: #92 OldLineTexan

Both are true. Jim Web ran as a “Leftcon” if there is such a thing. In the midwest you’ve seen quite a few people swapping R party affiliation to Dems, it’s the sort of thing that happens when Pols look at their chances in a region where the party is under Iron control by Brownback types. If you go into office you want to be effective, not at the beck and call of loons and their loyalty tests. The dems have the most power right now which leads to effectiveness for individual representatives, while the R’s are visibly controlled by a small minority of loons at present in those same regions.