# Concerning the McCarthy concessions to become House Speaker **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 6, 2023, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerning-the-mccarthy-concessions-to-become-house-speaker/977794 "2023-01-06T18:32:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 45
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerning-the-mccarthy-concessions-to-become-house-speaker/977794/45 "2023-01-07T18:57:44Z")
> [@House Speaker Contest](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/2002): > > There are some newly-elected Republicans coming from heavily Democratic areas, mainly in New York [Wording of the quotes is from the other thread, but the general sense seems to still be under discussion over here.] New York overall is heavily Democratic, yes. The particular areas these representatives are from, to the best of my knowledge, are heavily Republican. The recent redistricting, for instance, landed my immediate (quite R, though mostly polite to D’s) area into a district designed to be very much safe R, though we used to be in a district that while generally definitely R held at least the hope of swinging D and had elected a D not all that many years back. > [@House Speaker Contest](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/2003): > > Do you think moderate repubs will sink the rules McCarthy negotiated with the Freedom Caucus when the vote comes on Monday? I hold a bit of hope, as some of them would like those committee seats for themselves, and may have been expecting them. But it’s not a large bit. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerning-the-mccarthy-concessions-to-become-house-speaker/977794)._