How close did the Democrats come to retaking the House of Representatives in '96? No less than 10 Republicans won with less than 50 percent of the vote. And a handful more won by fewer than 4,000 votes.
But as close as those races were, we believe one of the main reasons Dick Gephardt is not Speaker today is because our party squandered opportunities in the Deep South. Look inside the numbers. At the same time that Democrats were defeating Republican incumbents and winning hotly contested open seats across New England, the Rust Belt and the West Coast, we were losing Democratic-held open seats across the South. Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas all saw retiring …
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