Two big decisions in two days

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, the country has gotten more and more polarized over the past couple of decades. Republican states have mostly gone right, while Democratic states have gone left. The number of states actually close for Presidential races is small, and the people in charge of most states gerrymander their house districts so badly that few races are competitive, even when they should be. Through this legislatures manipulate their US House congregations, to have more of their party there than should be if the district lines were fairly drawn. We need nationwide independent committees to draw the lines... but that's not happening. I know that gerrymandering is an ancient American tradition (it dates back to Colonial times), but it's a bad one!

As for Oklahoma, I think it's now one of the most Republican states in the country, right down there with Utah. Sorry. :( And the Republican party of the past 15 years has gone farther and farther and farther and farther to the right, abandoning all reason in favor of unsupported opinion. They're not winning at everything, but they do seem to be having a VERY successful anti-Abortion campaign; 2013 is shaping up to be one of the worst years since Roe vs. Wade, in terms of the number of states passing new anti-Abortion legislation. Of course gay marriage is going the opposite direction (towards acceptance), and the Supreme Court thankfully helped that along, but not all issues are moving in positive directions.

And of course, they're absolutely refusing to do anything about our biggest problem for now and the future, global warming.

Incidentally, I still don't consider myself a democrat, I just think they're the lesser of two evils. Emphasis on "lesser", as their basic political strategy seems to be "promise the world, then roll over for the other side, don't want to cause any trouble now".

You're far more right about this than ideally you should be. :( Lots of Democrats do exactly that, while Republicans push as hard as they can to get their extremist views enacted into law.