Should you support publicly an issue that you know will lose seats for your Party in next election?

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2. I think they publicly supported the bill because opposing it endangered their own seats.

In the House, it isn't about the House it is about the individual's job.

Most Congressmen have an ear to their constituents. I think most of these men knew that a vote against the anti-Syrian refugee bill would come to haunt them on election day.

It is going to be an issue in the election at all levels of government. As long as we don't have a terrorist event, it will be manageable. A Daesh backed attack in the US would become the central issue in the election.

The House members are being cautious.

it doesn't make what they did right.

But I understand it.

That means I won't vote for Congressman Scott Peters in the Primary. In his case, his vote doesn't surprise me at all. He is a progressive it looks like it gets him votes and a non-partisan when it looks like that gets him votes.