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57Brave
10-01-2013, 01:37 PM
And then you say “Defund Obamacare,” and everyone knows why.

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/01/the_real_story_of_the_shutdown_50_years_of_gop_rac e_baiting/

57Brave
10-01-2013, 05:57 PM
These eighty members represent just eighteen per cent of the House and just a third of the two hundred and thirty-three House Republicans. They were elected with fourteen and a half million of the hundred and eighteen million votes cast in House elections last November, or twelve per cent of the total. In all, they represent fifty-eight million constituents. That may sound like a lot, but it’s just eighteen per cent of the population.

this article-- for stat heads there are numbers

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/09/meadows-boehner-defund-obamacare-suicide-caucus-geography.html