http://projects.newsobserver.com/tags/congress_08_0 Comments for "Congress' 08" en http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/dems_host_johnson_fundraiser#comment-6822 <p>Careful, Congressman Shuler refuses to be branded a lieberal...lol...</p> Thu, 22 May 2008 07:36:53 -0400 FFC1304 comment 6822 at http://projects.newsobserver.com http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/dems_host_johnson_fundraiser#comment-6820 <p>The Republicans are to be commended for elevating the Democrats in the 10th District to the status of liberal Washington Insiders. The last Democrat to win election to Congress from the 10th District was Basil Whitener in 1960 before Republican Jim Broyhill of Lenoir reeled off the first of 12 congressional terms there in from 1962 through 1984. </p> <p>Of course, Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., whose hometown of Morganton was also in the 10th District, served the Western Piedmont and the rest of North Carolina in the U.S. Senate until 1975, but Senator Sam was not known for dining regularly on caviar and champagne with all those limousine liberals in Washington. </p> <p>And the neighboring 9th District was not exactly the bastion of Democratic congressional clout in Congress. The 9th started voting Republican on a regular basis in 1952 when Dwight Eisenhower was elected to his first term as President. So if Western Piedmont Democrats can keep up this pace, they can figure to win a U.S. House term every half century or so.</p> Thu, 22 May 2008 04:36:09 -0400 Proctor comment 6820 at http://projects.newsobserver.com