Georgia 6 showed the problems Dems have to face if they want to win the House in 2018. As Tip O’Neill said, “All politics is local,” and congressional districts are more obsessed with local issues and less with state and national ones (or the national ones become local—here in my NJ district, our rep, Mr. Frelinghuysen, voted for the House healthcare bill, incurring the wrath of many in the district and endangering his re-election). That means a Dem or GOP House candidate has to appeal to a m...
Published on July 04, 2017 03:30