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Roll Call: Redistricting Makes Blue Dog Holden an Underdog

04/17/2012

 
SCRANTON, Pa. — They don’t know Rep. Tim Holden here.

The conservative Democrat spent the past 20 years representing a district less than 100 miles away, but his name is not familiar in these parts of northeastern Pennsylvania.

“Tim Holden? Yeah, but I can’t place it,” said Rosemary Battista, a retired factory worker and local Democrat.

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