"Republicans Are Beginning To Worry They Could Lose The House In 2014"

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Republicans Are Beginning To Worry They Could Lose The House In 2014

by LOLGOP at Little Green Footballs

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42425_Republicans_Are_Beginning_To_Worry_They_Could_Lose_The_House_In_2014

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“Democrats move to cities and overwhelmingly vote for Democrats,” The Atlantic Wire’s Philip Bump wrote. “If Democrats want to re-take the House, they should move to Wyoming.”

I explain how safe the Republican House majority should be to illustrate how remarkable it is that Republicans have begun to worry that they could lose the House, something they hadn’t imagined was possible until the first election after the next redistricting in 2022.

“Several influential Republicans told us the party is actually in a worse place than it was Nov. 7, the day after the disastrous election,” Politico’s Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei reported last week. They couldn’t find a Republican in Washington D.C. who didn’t see “a disaster in the making.”

Here are five reasons that even Republicans look at their representatives in the House and see disaster:




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[mick063]

1. Gerrymandering is a weak, earthen dam.

Requiring vigilant surveillance and maintenance. The incompetent GOP leadership is not up to the long term task.

The dam will inevitably break and the flood devastation will make the political landscape unrecognizable.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. It's an excellent article.

I see disaster for the Republicans too.

[Wilms]

3. ^

[dem in texas]

4. My greatest wish

I hope to live long enough to see Texas turn blue again.

[zbdent]

5. gerrymandering, plus

an all-too-willing "liberally-biased media" cheering onward for the Republicans make it unlikely that the Repugniconvicts will lose much ground ...

[Cha]

6. Yes, excellent analysis, applegrove.. bookmarking!

From your link..

5. Obamacare

"It’s already happened for former Republican congressional staffer Clint Murphy.

The cancer survivor was recently denied health insurance because of his sleep apnea. That was too much. After years of fighting the Democratic agenda, he went on Facebook and told his conservative friends what he thought about their never-ending effort to destroy Obamacare: “When you say you’re against it, you’re saying that you don’t want people like me to have health insurance.”

To many, this kind of experience suggests that self-interest is the only way to convince Republicans that all Americans need health insurance. But self-interest when it comes to health insurance isn’t to be dismissed lightly."

4. Complete Incompetence

"If party of personal responsibility makes it clear that they are unwilling to govern, what’s is their argument for re-election? The Washington Examiner’s Byron York, a conservative himself, says the House GOP needs an agenda to run on and win. Threatening to blow up the economy to stop President Obama from getting health insurance to tens of millions of people, he seems to feel, just isn’t good enough."

3. Voter Suppression Backfire

North Carolina’s Republicans have done the nation a service by highlighting how the GOP’s effort to pass voter ID laws and strengthen the “integrity” of the vote is just a bald-faced effort to stop minorities, students and Democrats in general from voting.

2. Immigration

1. Seniors