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  • CNN Poll: Anti-incumbent fever at record high

    02/16/2010 1:25:19 PM PST · by OldDeckHand · 19 replies · 676+ views
    Washington (CNN) – Only a third of U.S. voters think that most members of Congress deserve to be re-elected this year, according to a new national poll. That's the lowest number ever recorded for that question in a CNN survey. The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll, released Tuesday, indicates that only 34 percent feel that current federal lawmakers deserve re-election, with 63 percent saying no. Full results (pdf) According to the survey, 51 percent feel their member of Congress should be re-elected - also an all-time low in CNN polling - while 44 percent say their representative doesn't deserve to be...
  • Video: Bruce Braley Gets Owned by Fox Business

    02/07/2010 5:14:35 PM PST · by IowaRising · 23 replies · 1,360+ views
    YouTube ^ | February 6, 2010 | Independents4Lange
    Bruce Braley is my representative. He is an absolute disgrace. He needs to be on the top of conservative priorities come November. Touted as a rising star in Congress, he is touted as rising socialist here in Iowa's 1st District -- and this video helps prove it! (The front runner to challenge him is Ben Lange, a conservative from Independence who worked for John Kline (R-MN).) Braley we are coming after you this November!
  • States See Growing Campaign to Change Redistricting Laws

    02/07/2005 3:18:51 PM PST · by XHogPilot · 12 replies · 500+ views
    NY Times ^ | February 7, 2005 | ADAM NAGOURNEY
    WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 - The politically charged methods that states use to draw Congressional districts are under attack by citizens groups, state legislators and the governor of California, all of whom are concerned that increasingly sophisticated map-drawing has created a class of entrenched incumbents, stifled electoral competition and caused governmental gridlock. snip "It's a motherhood-and-apple-pie issue," said a Maryland state delegate, John R. Leopold, a Republican who this year found Democrats embracing his redistricting overhaul legislation after it languished for two years. "We have a situation in this state and this nation where the legislatures are creating our own voters....