One encouraging thing I've seen is the grumblings of the 'moderate republican', who appear to be increasingly marginalized by the current extremist faction in power. I don't know if they'll ever vote democrat, but its good to know that some repubs aren't 100% behind stringing up brown people and burning gays on a cross.
Of course, the bushies will, for a few months every 4 years, try to play up the 'compassionate' angle and the MTV-attention span voters will forget about the ugliness long enough to vote the party line, so there's only so much encouragement to be taken from that 'moderate streak'.
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