I'm not losing ground. You're making the mistake of acquainting me with the Democratic Party again. I'm not a Democrat. Every vote counts, yes, but you would agree that like a couple hundred votes isn't significant (I didn't say worthless).

But the Democrats are losing ground because they lack leadership. There are some good politicians in the Democratic Party, but they're usually outcast for superficial reasons (Kucinich is short, etc.,etc.). There are some good Republicans too but unfortunately being original fiscal-responsibility and small-government conservatives, they're outcast because they have little to no room in the new neo-conservative movement in the Republican Party.