Dems Target Allen West in 2012

Submitted by Kevin Derby on December 28, 2010 - 2:05pm

U.S. Rep.-elect Allen West, R-Plantation, hasn't even been sworn in yet, but Democrats already think his seat is vulnerable in 2012.

Roll Call reports the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is going after House Republicans who won in 2010 with less than 55 percent of the vote and whose districts voted for President Barack Obama in 2008. West won Florida's Congressional District 22 with 54 percent of the vote in November. The same district voted for Obama with 52 percent in 2008.

West is the only Florida member of Congress on the list, but Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., wife of Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fort Myers, is also one of the DCCC's targets.

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