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Republicans banking on carefully built House firewall
« on: October 25, 2016, 01:26:12 pm »
Republicans banking on carefully built House firewall

By Doug McKelway Published October 24, 2016 FoxNews.com

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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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Re: Republicans banking on carefully built House firewall
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2016, 01:30:06 pm »

McConnell Tells GOP Senators: We’ll Drop Trump ‘Like A Hot Rock’

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly .”

McConnell reassured Republican members of the upper chamber they could run negative ads against Trump if he becomes the nominee and it threatens their re-election, reports The New York Times.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/27/mcconnell-tells-gop-senators-well-drop-trump-like-a-hot-rock/

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Re: Republicans banking on carefully built House firewall
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2016, 01:40:55 pm »
McConnell Tells GOP Senators: We’ll Drop Trump ‘Like A Hot Rock’

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly .”

McConnell reassured Republican members of the upper chamber they could run negative ads against Trump if he becomes the nominee and it threatens their re-election, reports The New York Times.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/27/mcconnell-tells-gop-senators-well-drop-trump-like-a-hot-rock/

This is from Feb. Can you cite where this is actually happening now? As a matter of fact your man Wrench Pubic actually threatened to pull funding from any GOP'er who wasn't on the Trump Buckboard.