Numbers Not Right in Race to Replace DeLay

Numbers Not Right in Race to Replace DeLay
By DAVID ESPO , 01.30.2006, 03:05 AM

In the race to replace scandal-scarred Rep. Tom DeLay as House majority leader, one contender claims 120 votes, another boasts 90 and the third says he has about 50.

They can't all be right, since the totals claimed by Republican Reps. Roy Blunt, John Boehner and John Shadegg far exceed the 132 lawmakers eligible to vote when the rank and file selects a new leader for an era of political peril.

The exaggeration is understandable in advance of balloting set for Thursday.

"We're going to have the first significant leadership election since 1998," says New York Rep. Tom Reynolds, recalling the year Speaker Newt Gingrich stepped down following charges of unethical conduct and unexpected election-year losses.
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http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2006/01/30/ap2485301.html

...NOT!

As the article says, they are three of a kind, all dripping with special interest money.
More of the same.

for a bunch of Republicans.

You know, just like the Counties in Ohio that used Diebold that recorded more votes for Bush than there were voters in that County.

to get things right?

one for you, two for me, one for you, one for me, two for me, two more for me, one for you. YOu get the idea.

Don't they have more than half of the 435 members of the House?

with math either--or at least editing. There are 232 Republicans in the House so it's probably a typo that got missed. The estimates would still be about 30 over.

with words and numbers!

Thanks for the clarification.