Liberals & Democrats
The Definition of Insanity
Noah Rothman / Nov. 30, 2016
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You have to hand it to Nancy Pelosi. The Democratic minority leader in the House of Representatives knows how to keep her members in line.
By secret ballot on Wednesday, Pelosi was reelected by her caucus to her eighth consecutive term as leader of the Democrats in the lower chamber of Congress. She faced a remarkably stiff challenge this year from Democratic Ohio Representative Tim Ryan, who made a persuasive case for Pelosi’s ouster. Ryan hails from a district that voted for him and for President-elect Donald Trump despite its lopsided Democratic registration advantage. Ryan is relatively young (43-years-old) and took his seat in Congress in the first year that Pelosi was elected to Minority Leader (2003). He represents a predominantly white, working-to-middle-class Rust Belt electorate, which once made up the backbone of the Democratic coalition. He is, on paper, the perfect remedy to the ills that plague the Democratic Party in 2016. In the end, two-thirds of the Democratic minority in the House voted against him.
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