I think the Party has to be taken into account when voting. All you have to do is look at the nearly locked in step party line voting in the Houses, of late. Once people are elected and begin to serve they soon find out who's in charge and what they have to do to rise in the ranks and further their careers and their fortunes.

Saying that, I haven't seen a name in the Democrat column, not counting very local contests, that I would have pulled the lever for in many a year.

Maybe when Reid and Pelosi are history, and if then the Democrat Party moves away from it radical leanings I will reconsider, but not until then.