On Bucks County

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20100923_In_Bucks_County__a_bitter_poll_for_Murphy_to_swallow.html

Here's why this is interesting: much like the state of Virginia to its near south, Bucks County, PA, is one of the New Democratic Party's prized scalps. It's an affluent, moderate, traditionally Republican suburb full of the sort of squishy, self-involved centrists that both parties unfortunately need to win elections. Bucks County went mildly but measurably for Obama in 2008 and was often cited along with Virginia, North Carolina, Indiana, you know the rest, as evidence of the (ta daaaa!) "New Electoral Map" in the Obama Era.

Well, so much for that. Two years later, Bucks County is going to break harder for a Republican milquetoast than it did for the Messiah. It's still a center-right country, folks. And by several metrics, it's moving towards conservatism, not away from it.