This is my 5,199th post at Eclectablog.
That’s an astonishing sentence to me but it’s true. I have written so many posts that every once in a while I will Google something and find some of my own writing, an essay I had totally forgotten about. In essence, this blog has become a journal of what happens when a Democratic blue state gets gerrymandered so hard that it can barely be recognized as purple any longer. What is particularly gratifying is to read one of my own posts or something by one of our other amazing contributors and thinking to myself, “Well, damn. That’s pretty good.”
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