Dying dogs

Politics | Conservative Democrats–blue dogs in red districts–may become an endangered species after the elections in November | Edward Lee Pitts

Learning how to frost a cake or organize one's closet? No problem.

eHow.com is a website that, as its tagline goes, "tells you how to do just about everything."

But for its recent entry on learning "how to be a conservative Democrat," eHow.com offers a blunt assessment: The site labels it "challenging" to pull that off in the current political climate.

Challenging may be putting it mildly. Conservative Democrats are in tight spots right now all over the country. Even those who voted against such big-government legislation as healthcare reform are having a difficult time responding to Republican arguments that a vote for any Democrat is a vote for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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