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Karl Rove sounds the alarm about GOP losses in the suburbs
 Excerpt[Washington Examiner] With votes still to count, Democrats were on track to pick up nearly 40 House seats; they needed only 23 to flip the House. Downtown Atlanta and the I-85-I-75 junction at the bottom of the map. "We’ve got to examine the reasons why we lost and figure out how to fix those problems going forward," Rove said. "Problematically, the purple places, with the exception of Florida, didn’t go blue, but they got bluer." Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, joined Rove on the panel to review the midterm elections and preview 2020. The Republican’s old Georgia House seat, suburban Atlanta’s Sixth Congressional District, went Democratic for the first time since he flipped it in1978. Trump garnered just 48 percent of the vote there in 2016, defeating Clinton by just 1 point. Wiki: The [6th Congressional] district consists of many of the northern suburbs of Atlanta and includes portions of eastern Cobb County, northern Fulton County, and northern Dekalb County. The district includes all or portions of the cities of Roswell, Johns Creek, Tucker, Alpharetta, Marietta, Milton, Mountain Park, Sandy Springs, Brookhaven, Chamblee, Doraville, and Dunwoody. Posted by: Besoeker 2018-11-11 |
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