About southern Blue Dogs, good riddance. The next democratic winning coalition will be a truly liberal one.
It will be much harder to win the House without them...
True, but that's not the whole picture. Imagine if Democrats had narrower losses, a majority of 2, but the survivors included Taylor, Bright, L. Davis, and Jim Marshall. They would all be very reluctant to cast the deciding vote for any Speaker who wasn't one of them, and that's a recipe for disaster. If the majority depends on a certain variety of southern blue dogs, it is no majority at all.
