States below Mason-Dixon Line have provided House Republicans with citadel for advocating for massive spending cuts — situation that has enabled the budget stand-offs with President Obama, situation repeated this week with the release of dueling budget proposals.. ..…

In 2012, with Presidential on the line, Republican leadership rejected the lessons of 2010 and went back to the old way of campaigning millions of dollars of television advertising telling Americans all the bad things about President Obama. The Democrats, on the other hand, used the..…