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the speaker of the house for his leadership post in an election set to take place less than two hours from now. a.b. stoddard is associate editor and columnist at the hill. charlie hirt, columnist at the washington times. is john boehner is any danger ab? he is in danger of being embarrassed. 18 members on the record are against him. they would need to push to second ballot in neighborhood of 29 of the doesn t look like they will get there. if they were to surprise him with other names that have not come forward and pusush this to a second ballot, they would need the high 30s. that would be a situation where the speaker could probably hold on the second ballot. again unlikely it goes to that, but going to a second ballot even this number of defections is biggest embarassment since 1923 to a speaker, incumbent speaker being reelected to his position. jon: charlie big embarassment for healthy debate? obviously as ab points out something like that, which i think is unlik

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