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To: fieldmarshaldj

Yes; the last of the white, Congressional “blue dog” Democrats in Georgia (John Barrow) was finally gerrymandered out of his district a couple of years ago.


103 posted on 01/15/2017 10:34:23 AM PST by riverdawg
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To: riverdawg

When that district was created in 2002, a Republican, Max Burns, initially won it (it was, curiously, designed to elect a Black Democrat when the Dem legislature and Dem Governor overplayed their hand at trying to draw a Dem federal majority). Barrow lucked out by narrowly beating Burns in 2004. Burns would’ve won it back in ‘06 had it not been for a toxic anti-GOP environment. Barrow actually survived the redistricting in 2012, but the national anti-Dem climate in 2014 is what finally did him in.


104 posted on 01/15/2017 12:11:30 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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