Stockman is a freshman member from Texas, but this isn’t his first rodeo. He won his first congressional election in 1994, won reelection in 1996 even though his district had been made more Democratic via redistricting, and then lost it again that same year when the Supreme Court invalidated the redistricting process and his district became even more Democratic. He basically just hung out for 16 years until redistricting created a new, redder-than-red district, on the eastern side of the Lone Star State, that he couldn’t not win if he made it through the primary and runoff elections.
Back in the Saddle - Betsy Woodruff - National Review Online
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