Conservative Group Hits Republican for Breaking 'Repeal Obamacare' Pledge
Meet the first Republicans to vote against repealing Obamacare.
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The House of Representatives took its 67th vote to repeal all or part of the Affordable Care Act yesterday. Its newest Republican members had never been given a chance to vote "hell yes" on the question, and most of them did so. Three of them did not—Maine's Bruce Poliquin, New York's John Katko, and Illinois' Robert Dold.
There's no mystery about why. All of them won districts that Barack Obama had carried in 2008 and 2012. He took Poliquin's rural Maine seat by 7 points, Katko's upstate New York seat by 16 points, and Dold's Chicago suburb seat by 17 points. Democrats expect to compete for all of those seats in 2016, with Illinois-born former New York Senator Hillary Clinton leading their ticket.