By Halimah Abdullah
The Macon Telegraph
November 4, 2010
WASHINGTON — Rep. Jim Marshall, a fiscally conservative Democrat from Macon, voted against his party’s massive health care overhaul, vowed to help repeal the law and refused to endorse President Barack Obama during the 2008 elections.
Still, like just about half of the nearly 50 fellow moderate to conservative Blue Dog Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, Marshall was a political casualty of Tuesday’s midterm elections. The Blue Dogs’ broad losses in largely rural and conservative-leaning Southern districts broadens an ideological divide that may further stymie compromise in the wake of the Republican takeover of House seats.
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