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In reply to the discussion: Thank you, Dennis, for everything. [View all]suffragette
(12,232 posts)That's quite a bit more than going after someone in an election. They could not get his constituents to vote for them (and against Kucinich) so they changed the whole district as shown above, turning it into a notably gerrymandered one.
From what I've read, Kucinich won in a district that had been predominately Republican run before that and was consistently re-elected.
More on this here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Kucinich#House_of_Representatives
In 1996, Kucinich was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 10th district of Ohio. He defeated two-term Republican incumbent Martin Hoke by three percentage points. However, he has never faced another contest nearly that close, and has since been re-elected six times.
And here - Republican since 1891, except for two one-term Democrats (the last one serving 1965 1967 and Kucinich. So, that last stretch was 30 years until Kucinich shifted it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio's_10th_congressional_district