Democrats in Delaware are an enormous force. We hold almost all of the statewide offices - soon to get back the Attorney General -- as the Republican Attorney General, Jane Brady, is jumping out of politics in hope of a judicial appointment and in order to escape a daunting re-election campaign, especially if she has to run against a Biden (the Senator's son).
Here is an excerpt from the article:
The Republican Party is experiencing a case of creeping irrelevance, and even its own officeholders are infected. When Donna Lee Williams announced she would not run for a fourth term as insurance commissioner in 2004, she did not bother telling Republican state headquarters first. Ditto for [Attorney General Jane] Brady, when she applied for the judgeship.
The Republicans are down to a scant holding of three of the nine statewide offices -- occupied by U.S. Rep. Michael N. Castle, state Auditor R. Thomas Wagner Jr. and Brady -- and the majority in the state House of Representatives.
"No new faces have really come on. They're just short on candidates," said James R. Soles, a political science professor emeritus from the University of Delaware.
The descent has come over 25 years, from a time when the Republicans were the state's indispensable party.
See the full article at http://www.delawaregrapevine.com/9-05republicanebb.asp
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