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but seven of the nine other members of his group represent districts where a NO vote (for any reason) would be popular and politically expedient

That's encouraging.

However, I read that Stupak said that some of these members had already defected to the dark side.

It would be nice if I read wrong.

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One more thing to remember about the Stupak group: of the ten that I have left in the group, only Lipinski and Kaptur are in solidly Democratic districts. Stupak, Berry, Mollohan, Donnelly, Dahlkemper, and Rahall all represent districts that lean Republican, and Driehaus’ and Costello’s districts lean Dem by 3 points or less. That means that, except for Lipinski and Kaptur, it’s in their political best interest to vote against Obamacare regardless of its disposition of the abortion issu