Media impact on the special election

[Paul Hopfgarten]

Representatives are not 'beholden' to represnt ONLY their district...but to 
get re-elected it would make sense to focus ones efforts on one's own 
district.

What may have confused some folks is that you DO NOT have to live in the 
DISTRICT you want to represent, only within the same STATE...

EG: A person ofr Boston could run for John Oliver's Western MA seat if they 
wanted to, though I would assume winning would be difficult....

-Paul Hopfgarten
-Concord NH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
To: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@bimajority.org>; "Gary's Ice Cream" 
<gary@garysicecream.com>
Cc: "Boston radio e-mail list" <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: Media impact on the special election


> Are you sure??? I'm not on a position to declare that you are wrong
> but what you're saying makes little sense to me. I'd appreciate a
> reference. If you are correct, why aren't all representatives
> elected at-large instead of being voted on only in their "own"
> districts? I remember that, some years ago, a small state that had
> three representives (might have been Montana--but that's strictly a
> guess) had only two congressional districts. Each voter voted on the
> rep for his/her district AND the representative at-large, who
> represented the entire state. People used to half-jokingly refer to
> the at-large rep as the state's "third senator."
>
> -----
> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@bimajority.org>
> To: "Gary's Ice Cream" <gary@garysicecream.com>
> Cc: "Boston radio e-mail list" <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 12:41 PM
> Subject: Media impact on the special election
>
>
>> the districts that
>> Representatives are elected from are only that; once they are sworn
>> in, they represent their entire states (even in California).
>
>