This story was originally published on nationaljournal.com on February 24, 2017 The two-thirds of Re­pub­lic­ans in the House who have nev­er served when the GOP held ma­jor­it­ies in the House and Sen­ate along­side a GOP pres­id­ent can be for­giv­en for not re­mem­ber­ing the last time they were sim­il­arly situ­ated. It was 2006, and they lost 30 seats in the House. When Demo­crats were last in that situ­ation, it was 2010 and they lost 63 House seats. When one party con­trols all three of the elec­ted ele­ments of the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment, there is only one dir­ec­tion for angry fin­gers to point, and that’s at the party in power. The last time Re­pub­lic­ans had charge of the House, Sen­ate, and White House, it was un­der the pre­vi­ous con­gres­sion­al bound­ar­ies, and now few­er dis­tricts are drawn to be com­pet­it­ive. But that doesn’t mean the laws of grav­ity have been re­pealed, it just means there is some­what less volat­il­ity. There are still 23 Re­pub­lic­ans in dis­tricts that voted for Hil­lary Clin­ton, and did so des­pite the fact that Demo­crat­ic voters were pretty leth­ar­gic and

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