Republicans banking on carefully built House firewall
By Doug McKelway Published October 24, 2016 FoxNews.com
House firewall
Doug McKelway
By Doug McKelway Published October 24, 2016 FoxNews.com
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Speaker Paul Ryan sounds the alarm about GOP House races
A map of an average congressional district would be - if one could channel the Founders’ intention - a fairly straightforward geometrical thing. But politics has distorted the geometry of modern congressional districts in a big way.
"Goofy kicking Donald Duck," is how one observer described a map of Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district - just one of several gerrymandered districts that Republicans are pinning their hopes on as a firewall against a Democratic run on November 8.
Having lost the White House and Congress in 2008, Republicans undertook a complex plan to win control of state legislatures around the country in the 2010 mid-terms. The first step was redrawing congressional districts.
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