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Democratic Rep. Barrow works for GOP votes in Ga.

Lawmakers redrew his 12th District seat after the last census to carve out much of Barrow's Democratic base and replace it with a big swath of rural eastern Georgia that votes faithfully for GOP candidates. When GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney won 55 percent of the vote in Barrow's new Republican-leaning district in 2012, the Democratic congressman got re-elected by nearly the same margin. Outside groups including the national Republican and Democratic parties have spent $5.2 million on attack ads trying to sway the outcome of the race. While Allen and the NRCC have been trying hard to pair Barrow with Obama, who's unpopular in much of the district, Barrow has played up the nonpartisan, retail politics of helping constituents while rolling out campaign ads that routinely criticize his own party. In one TV spot, Barrow tells viewers "I'm taking on the Obama administration" to push for building the Keystone XL oil pipeline. James credits Barrow with helping city officials arrange a meeting with environmental regulators that led to Grovetown, a city of 12,000 west of Augusta, building a long delayed water treatment plant.

 

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