Thoughts on judicial elections from a retired Texas trial court judge, who still hears cases when assigned, but gets few assignments because he was elected as a Democrat and the state has gone Republican.
I very publicly split from the Democratic Party over what I see as the excessive influence of the Blue Dogs. I was disgusted when President Obama was not allowed to enact the program he ran on, but still got criticized as if he had.
I quit financially supporting the party and starting picking my candidates one at a time. I consider myself a left independent, if it matters in evaluating the remarks below the fleur-de-kos.