Reply #23: Probably just shorthand for the GOP's majority shrinking.

[ieoeja]

Although the impeachment did not occur til after the election, they made impeachment the central theme of their 1998 campaign. And it cost them. They lost seats in both chambers of congress that election.

And I am fairly certain it has been costing them ever since. I know more than one person who at least occasionally voted Republican -- and one who always voted Republican; even in '98 as she didn't think they would really impeach -- who have not voted for a single Republican since then. They (okay we as I am one of those who used to occasionally vote Republican) may vote Republican again, but only for one who denounces his/her party's action in that impeachment. But the best I have heard so far from a Republican is that it was a political mistake. Not that it was wrong, just that it was bad politics.