nine ballots, but he granted enough concessions to the progressive republicans that on the 9th ballot he got reelected. that was in 1923. that s the last time it went past one vote. as you see there going through this alphabetically right now, as you said, when i came on, there are 11 republicans right now who have voted for somebody other than mccarthy. so we ll see when they get through the full list, you d expect that number is going to grow right there. a number of the votes are for andy biggs, whose name was placeed in nomination. there s some others as well who received votes. but as we said, the key here just in terms of the math here for the house, it s that it s not just members casting votes. they had to cast a vote for somebody by name. i think it s starting to take a look at this list. andy biggs is in nomination. he voted for himself. matt gaetz voted for biggs. bob good voted for biggs. we haven t heard from norman or
right now by our count, he s lost 11 votes, as this vote continueses. steve kornacki, our national political correspondent is at the big board. steve, your podcast on the rev nugs, the gingrich revolution, bob livingston, talk about precedent of this. it is 100 years ago is the last time we went to a ballot. back then it was a republican speaker from massachusetts. there were progressive republicans that wut held their votes. what happened back then to the extent the precedent is going to be vant is as soon as he fell short on the first ballot, he and his allies rolled right into a second ballot. they fell short in the third and fell short in the fourth. they went through four ballots on one day. they saw they were stuck. so at that point, they moved to adjourn and took three days and
it moves power to the extremes. take a look at this. the number of competitive congressional districts, you know, where the general election actually mattered where the candidates had to compete for votes in the middle, those have been cut in more than half since 1997 by design through the rigged system of redistricting and it s likely to get much worse so that forces the politicians further to the extremes and guess what? that translates to how they vote in congress. you see a polarization both parties playing to the respective bases. there is almost no over lap now between what used to be a hand full of progressive republicans and conservative democrats and you can find a constructive compromise. that s gone out the window. and if you look closely, it s important to say this is a symmetric polarization. the republican party, they moved further right than democrats have left and you can see that in the composition of the parties. we talk about being a divided nation evenly but indepen
john, the first thing you point to here is hyper partisan polarization. walk us through what you ve been seeing as a trend here in recent years. this is really the structural dynamic that leads to the insanity we re seeing. bottom line, the incentive structure in the politics is all screwed up. it moves power to the extremes. take a look at this. the number of competitive congressional districts, you know, where the general election actually mattered where the candidates had to compete for votes in the middle, those have been cut in more than half since 1997 by design through the rigged system of redistricting and it s likely to get much worse so that forces the politicians further to the extremes and guess what? that translates to how they vote in congress. you see a polarization both parties playing to the respective bases. there is almost no over lap now between what used to be a hand full of progressive republicans and conservative democrats and you can find a constructive