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Scarborough: Republicans only held the House because of gerrymandering
Scarborough admitted that he had made a “mistake” the past month talking about how Republicans had won a majority of the House. He also said that what Americans want more than compromise, at this moment, is a “vision” for the Republican party. “The vision that Republicans have to speak to the middle class concerns,” he said.
He noted it wasn’t “just about the debt” even though that was the issue that mattered to him most, personally and said the Republican party has been getting “smaller and smaller and smaller.”
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At least they have one skill…
astonerii on January 21, 2013 at 11:22 AM
What a back stabbing piece of crap Scarborough is. The democrats are filthy corrupt liars bent on destroying this country and all this clown can do is make up attacks on Republicans.
darwin on January 21, 2013 at 11:24 AM
Jealous?
dmann on January 21, 2013 at 11:25 AM
Even with all non-gerrymandered, compact districts, the GOP would still almost certainly have a House majority due to all the “wasted” Dem votes in urban areas where they win 90% of the vote…
DavidW on January 21, 2013 at 11:25 AM
Who cares? Obama is awesome.
/MSNBC
Good Lt on January 21, 2013 at 11:26 AM
not small enough if it still has Slow Joe.
sauldalinsky on January 21, 2013 at 11:26 AM
This:
Does not jive with this:
If you bring a large number of disparate groups with opposing political views who have nothing in common, you’re going to have a weakly united, fractious organization. If you want to have a uniting vision, you must have a common link between everyone in the party. Republicans can’t keep trying to bring more liberals into the party and expect to have a common and uniting vision.
Pick one or the other.
Doomberg on January 21, 2013 at 11:28 AM
Scarborough only has a show because he’s the token “Republican”.
CycloneCDB on January 21, 2013 at 11:29 AM
Agreed. Republicans are more evenly distributed geographically. In my state it would be almost impossible to draw a map where the Democrats win a majority of the seats in 55/45 districts. About 7 of them would have to have a piece of Philadelphia for that to happen. Gross gerrymandering would be required to compensate for the Democrats’ urban specialization.
forest on January 21, 2013 at 11:29 AM
Yeah, and, ultra-lib Scarborough only holds onto the “Republican” monicker because he is paid to do so by team obama.
Pork-Chop on January 21, 2013 at 11:29 AM
While technically correct, he’s dismissing the fact that the bulk of the Dem’s votes came from Cali. Even the NRO article he sites missed that simple point.
So even if you grid split every state, it would flip purple seats on both sides of the aisle, and negligibly effect the final results.
Scarby’s a sellout. He knows his job is to give Barry the benefit on everything while knifing conservatives at every move.
budfox on January 21, 2013 at 11:35 AM
Joe, you might be correct; but how many of them killed their intern? You would have fit right in with the Kennedys.
reddevil on January 21, 2013 at 11:44 AM
There was some gerrymandering but Scarborough shouldn’t kid himself – if the Democrats were in control of things when the last census was completed they would have done the same thing. This is one instance where the GOP managed to keep up with the Dims.
gwelf on January 21, 2013 at 11:47 AM
+1
jake-the-goose on January 21, 2013 at 11:47 AM
Remember, Ed thinks Scarborough is great.
portlandon on January 21, 2013 at 11:52 AM
Scarborough: Republicans only held the House because of gerrymandering
yeah, I seem to recall that’s how Allen West kept his seat.
yet another feckless Former republican bashing away at
“Fellow Republicans”….
Funny, but the Democrat Party never seems to have these kinds
of people in it’s ranks…..
ToddPA on January 21, 2013 at 11:58 AM
Yeah, gerrymandering!!!
Now we need to keep 2020 in mind…
JohnGalt23 on January 21, 2013 at 11:59 AM
Ed likes almost everyone. It doesn’t mean he agrees with Scarborough.
gwelf on January 21, 2013 at 12:01 PM
How two “rights” make a “left”:
If Joe Scarborough and Christine O’Donnell had children, they would have the IQ of Ed Schultz…but they wouldn’t be witches.
Still they would probably be smart enough to take biology from Todd Akins….and cultural anthropology from Joe Biden.
EastofEden on January 21, 2013 at 12:05 PM
Scarborough sucks. Even if his claim is true it’s only because American voters have put their trust in GOP-controlled state legislatures and GOP governors. If such gerrymandering occurred it’s because voters in those states supported it. So, however you choose to look at it, a GOP-controlled House is exactly what a majority of American voters want.
cicerone on January 21, 2013 at 12:14 PM
I don’t truck with Joe much, but the observation that we held the House thanks to Gerrymandering is not all wrong. Folks, we got our butts kicked in 2012.
You and Joe can argue why or how and make excuses and whine, but we were unable to turn out a lousy sitting President, we lost seats in the Senat when we thought we had a shot at taking a majority, and we lost seats in the House!
And now, Obama’s strategy to destroy the R party is working to perfection. We are turning on each other instead of him, and doing the dirty work for him. Stop saying the man is a light weight fool. He’s winning, were not.
2ndMAW68 on January 21, 2013 at 12:16 PM
And the Democrats only have the Senate and the Presidency because of voter fraud.
Two can play this game.
wildcat72 on January 21, 2013 at 12:25 PM
The inside the beltway leadership of the Republican Party is what’s destroying it. They are using Obama as an opportunity to purge the GOP of conservative influence. Which will lead to the party’s extinction because 40% of the country is conservative.
wildcat72 on January 21, 2013 at 12:28 PM
Hahahah. Smell the fear. He’s right and you know it. Go shoot some guns.
lostmotherland on January 21, 2013 at 12:30 PM
Great moral compass.
lostmotherland on January 21, 2013 at 12:31 PM
And Joe only has a job because he’s a liberal pretending to be a Republican.
ButterflyDragon on January 21, 2013 at 12:32 PM
I’m saving my ammo in case some Obamaphone carrying moochers show up for food after the inevitable dollar collpase makes their welfare checks worthless.
wildcat72 on January 21, 2013 at 12:33 PM
I bet you were the kid who was scared of water guns.
wargamer6 on January 21, 2013 at 12:34 PM
Ignore Lostmotherland. His lost land is Nazi Germany. He thinks exterminating the opposition is a good idea as long as it isn’t his hands that are getting dirty.
njrob on January 21, 2013 at 12:39 PM
Lol. Classic.
Genuine on January 21, 2013 at 12:57 PM
Ok! Where are you located?
Vince on January 21, 2013 at 1:02 PM
…and Mika’s b-friend.
He might as well run with Charlite Crist.
Schadenfreude on January 21, 2013 at 1:03 PM
Leftards are the same old maggots.
Rightards are the same old fools.
Schadenfreude on January 21, 2013 at 1:04 PM
Okay, now explain the 2010 election before the latest redistricting took place.
tbrosz on January 21, 2013 at 1:48 PM
Joe massengil Sacrd**che to the rescue.
Hey Joe how’s the secretary?
harlekwin15 on January 21, 2013 at 1:58 PM
Lol. Accurate.
cicerone on January 21, 2013 at 6:52 PM