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Mr. Morden
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« on: August 18, 2006, 08:54:50 AM »

I was thinking about the scenario in which the Democrats manage to either come up just short of winning a majority in the House....or, alternatively, they manage to win just *enough* seats to get a majority.  So imagine that there's a 1-2 seat margin one way or the other.  Would we then see the minority party try to woo a couple of the most moderate members of the majority party--try to get them to switch parties, so that control of the House will flip?  Would there be a bidding war between the two parties to gain the allegiance of these moderates....offering them pork for their districts, committee chairmanships, policy concessions, whatever?  I wonder if this could be 2006's version of the Florida recount.  The post-election battle for control of the House.
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