Obamacare Opposition Didn't Help Blue Dogs
img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-19516" title="tea-party-protesters" src="/files/wxrimport/2010-11/tea-party-protesters.jpg" alt="" width="205" height="105" /><Ben Smith at Politico reports:
Most of the House Democrats who opposed health care legislation lost anyway on Tuesday.
Conservative Democrats agonized -- and faced intense pressure from leadership -- on two votes on the passage of the health care overhaul.
By my colleage Byron Tau's count, 20 of the "no" voters lost Tuesday. Twelve won, while six didn't seek reelection. Parker Griffith, who switched parties, lost his primary anyway.
As we wrote this morning, yesterday's wave was basically indiscriminate.
Full list of results for Democrats who opposed the health care bill is after the jump.
UPDATE: There were two major votes on the health care reform bill. The November vote had 39 "No" Democratic votes, the March vote had 34 Democratic "No" votes. After the jump, we have separated the votes into two lists.
Of the 8 Democrats who switched their votes from "no" to "yes" between November and March, 5 lost, 1 won, and 2 retired. 5 Democrats switched their vote from "yes" to "no" and 2 won, 2 lost and one retired.
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