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HooptieWagon

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3. About 90% of GOP seats are safely gerrymandered.

Wed Oct 9, 2013, 08:09 PM

Oct 2013

I don't know the breakdown of Teabaggers and moderate GOP....but its reasonable to assume most of the Teabaggers are in safely gerrymandered districts, since they had to win a GE. More competitive districts probably elect a more moderate Congressperson, since the winner has to garner more swing votes. Exceptions to the rule might be where the Dems fielded a really poor candidate allowing a more extreme republican to win; or a long time incumbent who latched on to the teabaggers, who got reelected solely on incumbency/name recognition.

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Question: Are there more TP Repubs up for reelection or more Repubs in purple districts? [View all] trublu992 Oct 2013 OP

In the House, they're all up for election... JHB Oct 2013 #1

They're all up for reelection next year Cirque du So-What Oct 2013 #2

About 90% of GOP seats are safely gerrymandered. HooptieWagon Oct 2013 #3

But if we need 21 seats for take control aren't there 21 purple disticts we could get? trublu992 Oct 2013 #4

Yes and no. HooptieWagon Oct 2013 #7

Michele Bachmann's district is storngly GOP by MN standards, but not nearly as much as some others YoungDemCA Oct 2013 #5

The entire House is up every two years jberryhill Oct 2013 #6

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Below is a link with some info regarding House 2014 - pre-election analysis Tx4obama Oct 2013 #10