One member was just telling me that his nominating speech for Shadegg was very tough on the current leadership and very powerful. He thinks it didn’t necessarily get Shadegg more votes, but it definitely hurt Blunt. This member points out that after the first ballot there were 42 Shadegg votes in play (counting Ryun’s two). And Boehner went on to get 43 additional votes on the second ballot. He thinks that showed there was very strong sentiment in the conference in favor of change.

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Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.
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