http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/gop-could-pay-price-for-gerrymandering-93597.html?hp=t1_3
No one disputes Republicans used the once-a-decade redistricting process to lock in their House majority — almost certainly through 2014 and possibly until the next round of line-drawing in 2020.
But the party could pay a steep price for that dominance.Some top GOP strategists and candidates warn that the ruby red districts the party drew itself into are pushing House Republicans further to the right — narrowing the party’s appeal at a time when some GOP leaders say its future rests on the opposite happening.If you’re looking for a root cause of the recurring drama within the House Republican Conference — from the surprise meltdown on the farm bill to the looming showdown over immigration reform — the increasingly conservative makeup of those districts is a good place to start.
might i also add those districts that house poor and working poor and middle class families will wake to the reality that all they cheered and vote for was happening to them also.
The shellacking Republicans took in 2012 has triggered months of consternation that the party is too white, too conservative and too male. But tell that to the increasing number of House Republicans who are safely ensconced with nary a worry that a Democrat might unseat them in the next election.The bigger threat to them is a primary challenge from the right bankrolled by the Club for Growth or another deep-pocketed outside group angry they went soft on a key vote.
they did not learn or accept the realization of the primary while a concern for them will not influence all the voters they crapped on by a change of rhetoric used as late as the night before, that doesn't work anymore good thing they forget so much, because they will give the whole plan a way.
there is a saying "God don't like ugly", the stuff they are trying to do can't get any uglier, wait how many times have i said that?
