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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.

topics:
Obamacare, Election 2010

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Paul Chesser is executive director for the American Tradition Institute and a senior fellow for the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives. The views he expresses do not necessarily reflect the views of these organizations.

http://spectator.org/blog/2010/11/03/re-dems-who-voted-no-on-obamac

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