Shutdown Put 37 GOP Congresspersons On ‘Endangered’ List

Posted by | October 25, 2013 06:16 | Filed under: Politics Top Stories

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Republicans on the Hill continue to delude themselves into believing that their shutdown was good for the nation – and their careers. The numbers say otherwise:

Fifty-four percent of Americans now oppose Republican control of the House, according to a CNN-ORC poll released on Monday. And a series of polls commissioned by progressive advocacy group Moveon.org and conducted by Public Policy Polling released in batches over the last several days indicate Democrats may have enough momentum to take back the House.

Democrats only need to lock up 17 additional seats in the November 2014 midterm elections to secure a House majority. The new polls show the recent government shutdown may cause as many as 37 Republicans to lose their House seats next year.

PPP pollsters surveyed 61 Republican-held congressional districts around the country from Oct. 1 through Oct. 18. They concluded that “Democrats not only have an opportunity to take back the House of Representatives next year, but that they could win a sizable majority if voter anger over the shutdown carries into 2014.”

According to a PPP memo released on Monday:

Republicans will likely find this third round of surveys to be the most alarming yet, given that the new results show substantial Republican vulnerability in many districts that were not even supposed to be close. Incumbent Republicans trail generic Democrats in 15 of the 25 districts we most recently surveyed. This means generic Democrats lead in 37 of 61 districts polled since the beginning of the government shutdown.

The full endangered list:

  • CA-25: Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon
  • CA-39: Rep. Edward Royce
  • CA-49: Rep. Darrell Issa
  • CO-03: Rep. Scott Tipton
  • FL-07: Rep. John L. Mica
  • FL-15: Rep. Dennis Ross
  • FL-25: Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart
  • FL-27: Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • IL-06: Rep. Peter Roskam
  • IL-16: Rep. Adam Kinzinger
  • MI-03: Rep. Justin Amash
  • MI-04: Rep. Dave Camp
  • MI-06: Rep. Fred Upton (of “Monkey Court” fame)
  • MI-08: Rep. Mike Rogers
  • NJ-02: Rep. Frank LoBiondo
  • NJ-03: Rep. Jon Runyan
  • NJ-05: Rep. Scott Garrett
  • NJ-07: Rep. Leonard Lance
  • NJ-11: Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen
  • NY-02: Rep. Peter King
  • NY-22: Rep. Richard Hanna
  • OH-01: Rep. Steven Chabot
  • OH-10: Rep. Michael Turner
  • OH-15: Rep. Steven Stivers
  • OH-16: Rep. James B. Renacci
  • PA-06: Rep. Jim Gerlach
  • PA-15: Rep. Charlie Dent
  • PA-16: Rep. Joe Pitts
  • VA-01: Rep. Robert Wittman
  • VA-04: Rep. Randy Forbes
  • VA-05: Rep. Robert Hurt
  • VA-10: Rep. Frank Wolf
  • WA-03: Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler
  • WA-08: Rep. Dave Reichert
  • WI-01: Rep. Paul Ryan
  • WI-06: Rep. Tom Petri
  • WI-08: Rep. Reid Ribble

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David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.