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(57,596 posts)When he should have been embracing it, which made him look doubly weak... And the teabaggers were created and all their screechy jibberish really made him meek and pliant during the race.
Rigell was some tea party Ford salesman who only got elected because he swore up and down in his commercials that he'd get Obamacare "declared unconstitutional"
!)... Yeah, I know, don't get me started, but demoralized repubs lapped it up, and the tea party was the cool thing to be a part of then, so Nye lost big.
Ocare was the tool used to stir up voter anger against Dems, not Pelosi... We also had our district gerrymandered awhile back so most of the black votes got consolidated in an already safe district (Bobby Scott), but that's still tied up in the courts, I think