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  How Democrats Could Win the House. Really.
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Last EditedRP  Nov 04, 2015 09:54am
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AuthorKyle Kondik
News DateTuesday, November 3, 2015 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionWhatever happens in the White House a year from now, it’s an article of faith that not much will change in the House, where Republicans have a seeming lock on the majority.

But wait: the ascendancy of Donald Trump and Ben Carson just might have cracked the window open.

It’s true that the Democrats’ odds of flipping the 30 seats needed to win back the House of Representatives are just a couple ticks greater than zero. But the two current polling leaders for the Republican presidential nomination, Trump and Carson, happen to be the two candidates almost perfectly designed to turn off voters in the districts Democrats need to retake the House.
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