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ShadowLiberal

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20. That's because the GOP is spread thin in PA

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #3)

Sun Oct 6, 2013, 11:01 PM

Oct 2013

You're right that the GOP congressmen around Philadelphia could be vunlerable, they still have somewhat of a built in advantage from gerrymandering, but if you gerrymander so badly to grab 2/3's of the districts in a purple state leaning blue, you leave multiple districts open to being grabbed by the other party in a wave year.

I'm not sure about the rest of the state (I live near Philadelphia), but Philadelphia area Republican congressmen were deathly afraid of Corbett's electoral vote rigging scheme costing them their seats.

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