Now there's a real possibility that we may switch to a by district electoral distribution in presidential elections.
Posted on 05/19/2013 7:50:10 AM PDT by george76
Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love has declared she wants another shot at the congressional seat occupied by Democrat Jim Matheson.
The announcement that she wanted a rematch came during an afternoon speech Saturday to several thousand delegates at the Utah Republican Party’s annual organizing convention.
“You and I have some unfinished business with Jim Matheson,” Love said during her speech, which was met with loud cheers and resounding applause.
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I only have one thing to say about that: Where do I send money to help her to it?
That will work too.
Get to their hearts through their wallets.
Not to mention it is the truth!
I’m just not ready to simply write off the current plantation dwellers. In my conversations with my black pastor friend in Detroit I’m hearing that inner city people are losing hope in the plantation and are looking for it elsewhere. They need to find hope within God and within themselves.
That is good for you and us.
Don't take the analogy as in insult cripple, but Detroit and many parts of Michigan are like the Former Eastern Bloc countries.
Formerly Communist to the point that they are dirt poor. Now that the Socialists locusts have moved on, the remaining people have lived under the System the Democrats tout and don't want no more of it!
If we did that in most places the Democrats would never win another national election, ever.
But then that is why they want amnesty so bad :\
If it wasn’t for the Losertarian candidate, she could have won..
If she lost to a Democrat in Utah then I’d say her chances in the rematch are pretty slim. Surely there is a better challenger out there.
Problem is, even if we ran well-funded and impeccably qualified candidates in those districts, we’d be lucky if they received more than a few % higher than a usual, non-descript, non-funded GOP candidate.
I’m reminded of about a decade or so ago, a White man managed to get the Democrat nomination for Mayor of Gary and a Black the GOP nod. The White guy won in a massive landslide. It’s the party label that remains the biggest impediment to a breakthrough.
She only barely lost. 2014 will not be a good Dem year.
Tea partier Dr Rob Steele gave John Dingell a serious fight in 2010 and Steel was a late entry nobody running in a district held by Dingell and his daddy for nearly a century. It was a less than 10 point split between them and Steele had no real GOP backing.
Its also important to note that while well liked, Thaddeus McCotter was quite moderate because they said a conservative could never win that district. Today its held by solid tea party congressman Kerry Bentivolio.
Things are changing considerably in Michigan. The grassroots tea party may well be among the most powerful in the nation with the GOPe being very careful about what they say and do. A coalition of tea partiers and GOP conservatives even put a rock solid conservative on the RNC.
I hope she gets her chance and wins big. I could hardly believe it when the RINO Huntsman family endorsed her opponent. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/55032977-90/huntsman-matheson-jon-utah.html.csp
“I hope she runs and wins.”
Me too. Conservatives should learn from her. Never give up as the left are relentless in their pursuit to destroy the country.
I do too! Love it!
This is Utah not New Jersey. Every year is a bad year for Democrats. Not a single county in Utah went Democratic. The worst showing Romney had in the whole state was Summit county, and he won that one by 5 points. Well Summit County wasn't part of the 4th district. The Republican should have won the race by double digits. If they didn't it's because they had a bad candidate.
Yes, but you’re referencing White majority districts. It is exceptionally difficult with Black districts. Even in the New Orleans (LA-2) example, which we did win in 2008, that was not a race that was held on a normal election day. There was a district in GA where a Black Republican lady outspent the Black Dem candidate and still couldn’t pull it off.
Dr. Steele, while he did perform well in Dingell’s district in 2010, the margin was still a wide 17% for Dingell (57%-40%).
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=496778
With Bentivolio, had he not had an Indian Mohammadan opponent for the full term, he would’ve lost McCotter’s seat (and remember that he did lose for the remainder of McCotter’s term to a White Dem by 2% in that same election). Though, I expect he’ll probably be reelected.
Democrats haven’t performed as badly as you might think for Utah’s Congressional districts. Matheson has been one of the luckiest examples, and he has done so since 2000 despite running under GOP-favored lines. His father had had success as Governor, and won his races as a Dem as both Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan were at the top of the ticket.
Fact is, Mia Love was THE best performing candidate against Matheson in his Congressional career. She lost by 768 votes, which was .3%. Polling data indicated it was going to be close, and it was. Now, there are some other examples as to why she narrowly lost, one being that the Libertarian candidate was on the ballot (who took a key 3%). Others were possibly racial (when she beat a White GOP opponent at a primary convention, he employed race baiting, and I have no doubt some of that seeped over into the general), also that Matheson had support from key RINOs like Huntsman, and that Matheson is a higher-ranking official in the Mormon church than Mayor Love.
In any event, for someone who performed as well as Mayor Love did, it would be her honor to make a second run against Matheson.
Matheson is a hereditary Democrat with a great reputation passed along from his father ... by all appearances he not a loony leftist. I would go so far as to state that if all Rats were even vaguely like Matheson I would not hate Rats. At some point he will need to switch parties. If not, in Utah the stupidity / Marxism of the national Rats will almost undoubtedly take him down.
Mia Love came within a whisker of beating Matheson last year, and she has a better chance than anyone else of beating him next year. And after that, the sky’s the limit—she might replace Orrin Hatch in the Senate after 2018, or maybe run for governor someday.
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