3 Months Ago, Jay Cost from RealClearPolitics says (in On the Parker Griffith Switch) Media pundits have been quick to focus on how the Republican Party has become too conservative for moderate Northeastern Republicans, leaving people like Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins as outliers and making it difficult for the GOP to win seats in Connecticut, New Hampshire, or upst...

And RealClearPolitics says (in Rep. Parker Griffith (D-Ala.) To Switch Parties) Although Alabama's 5th District has voted Republican in every presidential contest since 1980, it has never elected a Republican to Congress. It covers the entire northern border of the state and includes Huntsville. Griffith succeeded nine-term Rep. Bud Cramer (D) after just a 3-point...