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MSNBC host and former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough admitted on Sunday that Republicans only kept their majority in the House of Representatives as a result of gerrymandering, noting that the GOP received less votes than Democrats in the 2012 election. Scarborough argued that Republicans must prevent radical ultra-conservative voices from dominating the partys message and pointed out that the GOP is already losing electoral ground among voters who view it as too extreme and out of touch with middle class Americans:
SCARBOROUGH: William F. Buckley in the 1960s at some point had to start defining the boundaries of conservatism. He went after the John Birch Society, Ayn Rand, George Wallace. That has to happen again with this party because its getting smaller and smaller. In this debate, we actually have conservative thinkers, talking about ronald reagan being a RINO a Republican in name only, because he supported an assault weapons ban. They keep pushing themselves closer and closer to the cliff. But I just have to say one other really important point, because I made a mistake over the past month talking about how Republicans have also won a majority in the House. As this article I was referencing mentioned, we actually got a minority of votes nationwide in House races. It was just gerrymandering from 2010 that gave us the majority.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/01/20/1474561/joe-scarborough-republicans-only-kept-house-majority-because-of-gerrymandering/
JimDandy
(7,318 posts)him say that on Meet the Press this morning. A little honesty from a Repub is so refreshing. Now let's hear him promote the use of an independent commission to stop the gerrymandering.
TeamPooka
(24,259 posts)they cheat and they are proud of it despite what Joe said.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)how many times on MJ did I hear you say how the repubs won so many congressional seasts without including the gerrymandering factoid?