Approximately 11.5% of all Republican seats in Congress were lost in November 2007. Only approximately 6.7% of the members of Rep. Tom Tancredo's Immigration Reform Caucus lost their seats.
J.D. Hayworth had serious problems because of significant ties to the Jack Abramoff scandal.
In a year dominated by Democrats, it is not surprise that Vernon Robinson was soundly defeated in a district in which Democrats outnumber Republicans. There was not a single incumbent Democrat member of the House of Representatives that was defeated.
Many Democrats that won ran campaigns that made them appear to be as tough or tougher on border security than their Republican opponents.
By the way, the leading anti-illegal immigration conservative, Rep. Tancredo, won his district with 58.8% of the vote against a strong Demcoratic opponent and a Libertarian opponent.
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The first sentence of paragraph three of post number eleven should have read "In a year dominated by Democrats, it is no surprise that Vernon Robinson was soundly defeated in a district in which Democrats outnumber Republicans."
The Twilight Zone commercial was hilarious.
I think Vernon destroyed himself when he questioned Brad Miller's sexuality. Up ontil that point he was almost playful in his jabs on Miller and the issues and those jabs were pretty powerful. When he went personal with the attack on Miller and his wife, he went too far and it turned people off. My mother thought he crossed the line and became nasty about something which should not be an issue. Her sense of decorum was breached when Vernon questioned why Miller and his wife never had children. She didn't think that had any bearing on the election. That said, she voted for Vernon because he was the Republican, but she said she hadn't any choice.