IMAGE(originally from SP's Facebk pg): Where would an armed schizo get the idea of SHOOTING Gabby Gi...

[ProgressiveEconomist]

IMAGE(originally from SP's Facebk pg): Where would an armed schizo get the idea of SHOOTING Gabby Giffords (D-AZ)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SARAH-PALIN-TARGET-MAP.jpg

Does anyone know which of the 111th Congress members listed in the image, all targeted with Sarah Palin's crosshairs, nonetheless won re-election?

I believe the three crosshairs in red are not DEAD but rather had announced retirement from Congress. But still maybe the Tucson mass-murderer thought he was turning another of those 20 crosshairs red?

What all 20 evidently had in common was a vote for health care reform from a district McCain/Palin took in 2008 in their landslide among Caucasians over age 30.

IMO, the cleverest thing Democrats could do politically this week would be to bring all of them still in office together for a press conference ASAP. All except Gabby Giffords, of course, who's hospitalized with traumatic brain injury from a gunshot clean through her head.

WHAT'S YOUR OPINION?

[regnaD kciN]

1. Your image is missing...

It looks like Wikipedia "scrubbed" it.

I'm assuming this is the map you were speaking about?

[provis99]

2. your map didn't show up, either.

[Motown_Johnny]

3. this one?

[guruoo]

4. It's there, Wikipedia's not allowing it to be hotlinked nt

[ProgressiveEconomist]

8. Thank you for confirming that important link. So all you have to do is click thru, or

copy the .JPG link into your browser address window?

[ProgressiveEconomist]

5. I loadied it itnto the browser on my Android phone less than half an hour ago, and

it still looks fine.

And it doesn't have a Google cache URL, either.

Maybe my cellphone internet host caches frequently-requested pages? The jpg is VERY unlikely to have gone down the memory hole in the past half hour, if it has gone down the memory hole.

Sorry uou couldn't find it. Try your phone's browser, or the WAYBACK archive.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

6. Palin's list of 17 midterm Democratic House targets, March 2010--from Politico.com

This list excludes the three retiring Democrats with red crosshairs next to their names in the 'controversial target map'.

From http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34873.html:

'Palin unveils midterm target list
By ANDY BARR 3/23/10 2:05 PM EDT

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin rolled out a list of Democratic members of Congress she intends to target for defeat this year, announcing that she'll go after lawmakers who voted for health care reform and hail from districts she and Arizona Sen. John McCain won in the 2008 presidential election. Forty-eight Democrats represent districts that voted for McCain.

"With the president signing this unwanted and �transformative� government takeover of our health care system today with promises impossible to keep, let�s not get discouraged," Palin wrote in a post on her Facebook wall, urging supporters not to "get demoralized." "We�re going to hold them accountable for this disastrous Obamacare vote," she continued.

The Democratic members she listed were: (see my next post, below)

[ProgressiveEconomist]

7. Palin's 17 Democratic House midterm targets--and their districts. WHO WON and

who LOST?  Anyone know or want to research this at
www.house.gov ?

01 Ann Kirkpatrick     (AZ-1),
02 Harry E. Mitchell   (AZ-5),
03 Gabrielle Giffords  (AZ-8),

04 John Salazar        (CO-3),
05 Betsy Markey        (CO-4).
06 Allen Boyd          (FL-2),

07 Suzanne M. Kosmas   (FL-24),
08 Baron P. Hill       (IN-9),
09 Earl Pomeroy        (ND-AL),

10 Charlie Wilson      (OH-6),
11 John Boccieri       (OH-16),
12 Kathy Dahlkemper    (PA-3),

13 Christopher Carney  (PA-10),
14 John M. Spratt, Jr. (SC-5),
15 Tom Perriello       (VA-5),

16 Alan B. Mollohan    (WV-1),
17 Nick J. Rahall II   (WV-3).

[ProgressiveEconomist]

9. WHO WON? Nick Rahall (D-WV3), be VERY careful the next few weeks

Besides Gabby Giffords, Rick Rahall (D-WV3) is the only Democratic incumbent of 17 on Sarah Palin's hit-list to have survived the 2010 midterm elections.

Republicans also took all three of the open seats with red crosshairs on Palin's pre-election "target map".

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Election Results for districts in Palin's crosshairs,from http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml :

"Member Web Site Listing (by State) - United States House of Representatives, 112th Congress, 1st Session

01 Gosar, Paul R., Arizona, 1st
02 Schweikert, David, Arizona, 5th
03 Giffords, Gabrielle, Arizona, 8th ***SURVIVOR #1***

04 Tipton, Scott, Colorado, 3rd
05 Gardner, Cory, Colorado, 4th
06 Southerland, Steve, Florida, 2nd

07 Adams, Sandy, Florida, 24th
08 Young, Todd, Indiana, 9th
09 Berg, Rick, North Dakota, At-Large

10 Johnson, Bill, Ohio, 6th
11 Renacci, Jim, Ohio, 16th
12 Kelly, Mike, Pennsylvania, 3rd

13 Marino, Tom, Pennsylvania, 10th
14 Mulvaney, Mick, South Carolina, 5th
15 Hurt, Robert, Virginia, 5th

16 McKinley, David, West Virginia, 1st
17 Rahall, Nick, West Virginia, 3rd ***SURVIVOR #2***


Republicans also won all 3 open seats with red crosshairs on Palin's map:

Griffin, Tim, Arkansas, 2nd
Bucshon, Larry, Indiana, 8th
Black, Diane, Tennessee, 6th