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The experience with North Carolina’s four vulnerable Democrat congressmen backs up Phil’s point, as my former John Locke Foundation boss John Hood explains:
President Obama has been a disaster for his party. In North Carolina, the vulnerable Democrats who voted against ObamaCare and other administration policies (cap and trade also) - Mike McIntyre, Larry Kissell, and Heath Shuler - won reelection. The vulnerable Democrat who voted for ObamaCare, (Bob) Etheridge, was defeated. Pretty clear message there.
And before the election, if you had asked anyone knowledgeable about North Carolina politics which of those four they thought was safest, they would have answered “Etheridge.” But he’s the only one of the four who is gone.
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Bob K.| 11.3.10 @ 12:28PM
Chris Carney (D) of PA's 10th district which was Republican except for the last 4 years also lost. He supported Obama more or less down the line!
Paul Kanjorski (D) 24 year incumbent in PA's heavily democratic 11th District also lost. He was a big supporter of all of Obama's policies.