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To: calgal who wrote (51859)	6/1/2012 2:22:50 AM
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The Blog Artur Davis: 'Democratic Label No Longer Matches What I Know About My Country' A once proud Democrat becomes a Republican. 10:39 AM, May 30, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARREN Single Page Print Larger Text Smaller Text Alerts On his personal website, former congressman Artur Davis confirmed at least some of the recent rumors surrounding him—that the lifelong Democrat, the man who endorsed Barack Obama for president early in 2007 and seconded his nomination at the Democratic party convention in 2008, now considers himself a Republican. Here's Davis on his switch: While I’ve gone to great lengths to keep this website a forum for ideas, and not a personal forum, I should say something about the various stories regarding my political future in Virginia, the state that has been my primary home since late December 2010. The short of it is this: I don’t know and am nowhere near deciding. If I were to run, it would be as a Republican. And I am in the process of changing my voter registration from Alabama to Virginia, a development which likely does represent a closing of one chapter and perhaps the opening of another….