Deborah Pryce, the “highest-ranking woman in the Congress”  prior to Madame Speaker Pelosi, announced her intent to spend more time with her daughter/family. And not have to run for public office in 2008 (she barely won in 2006, by a margin of 1600 votes out of  200,000 cast).

For someone who was the 4th-highest member of the GOP House leadership, it is another blemish to accompany former Speaker Hastert’s decision to bid adieu.bushpryce.jpg

or why we — those of us up to 29 — mattered in the 2006 mid-term elections is decipherable from this pretty image from the MFA folks:

Youth Vote Fuels the Blue Wave
Why the Youth Vote Matters