Some big swings in that district.
I don't really like these very tiny legislative chambers. What do you think?
Posted on 03/06/2017 8:01:06 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Woo! Hoo! In the nine special state legislative elections since the biggest upset in political history last November the Democrats have made no net gains. Aren't you impressed by their fantastic performance?
No? Then you are probably normal. Yet Politico takes this fact in their March 5 article by Gabriel Debenedetti and acts like it is some sort of great victory portending great things for the Democrats in the future. You won't know whether to laugh or yawn while reading Politico going into desperate feel-good overdrive hyping the Democrats based on incredibly thin gruel:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
They just type what their Dem masters tell them to write.
Follow some of the Politico “reporters” on Twitter. They make no attempt at all to hid their hatred toward conservatives.
The results weren’t bad for the rats but hardly anything to write home about.
CT they are cooing about how much closer it was than in November, WHEN A POPULAR GOP INCUMBENT WAS RUNNING. Hillary got 43% in the district and then the dem Senate candidate in the special got 45%.
The Delaware seat is decidedly rat leaning, probably decades since it’s had a GOP State Senator. They are cooing because it was close in a GOP landslide year but they held it easily. This special was a lot closer than the last contested race that wasn’t in a GOP landslide year. And they sent in Biden and everything because they were scared they could lose.
Propaganda to make themselves feel better.
The Commie rat scum has swung so far to the left that FDR looks like a Reaganite they`ll not get back their majority in 2018 or ever
I follow reporters that were/are assigned to Trump on Twitter. They make no attempt to hide their hatred towards him or conservatives.
What a bunch of crap...politico is as trustworthy as the Tampa Bay Times.... Both are crap....
That district in DE had a GOP State Senator (Steven Amick) as recently as 2009. He retired and the present Dem Lt Governor took the open seat in the ‘08 elections.
I do find it curious (suspicious) that there was a higher turnout in the special election than there was in the last regular election for this seat. As is usually the case, special elections have far lower turnouts.
Democrat establishment is spending big on young Jon Ossoff to replace Tom Price. I personally think his TV ads are poorly done and a waste of money.
The big question is how did Ossoff and his promoters con the DEMe into throwing away so much money on him?
There are 5 other Dems in the 18 candidate field. Does picking Ossoff reveal a major problem within DEMe? Or will he be some kind of counter-intuitive winner?
The amazing thing about the delaware race was how few people voted. Of a senate district with 45,000 adults, I think 12,000 voted. The democrat won like 7000 to 5000. In Virginia, our house districts have larger vote counts.
Some big swings in that district.
I don't really like these very tiny legislative chambers. What do you think?
yea, don’t like.
even CT Senate at 36 members. Dominated by elite of both parties. very few members outside the norm
We have just 33 State Senators in TN (with the Dems outnumbered badly, 28R-5D. 3 from Memphis (2 Black/1 White), 2 from Nashville (1 Black/1 White), I’m in the Black Dem district). Each Senator has a constituency of about 200,000. With 99 State Representatives, they represent close to double the number of citizens 1 Delaware State Senator does.
Of course, the upside to large legislatures in small states is that you can have a personal relationship with your elected officials, which is closer to what the Founding Fathers would prefer.
If you made a bunch of Delawares nationally, especially within cities, more than a few would be rotten boroughs.
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