Posted on 09/06/2018 7:04:14 PM PDT by Libloather
The Democratic side of Congress is almost certainly going to look a little different after the midterm elections this year, as a result of the success of women and minority candidates in primary contests. Race by race, they've begun to make inroads into the traditional white and male establishment of national politics.
The victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the Democratic primary against New York Rep. Joe Crowley -- a ten-term incumbent and the fourth highest-ranking Democrat in the House -- has been a beacon for other outsider progressive women and minorities trying to defeat entrenched Washington incumbents.
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Massachusetts' 7th Congressional District is the only district in the state with more nonwhite than white residents.
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Is she more white than black? These types of questions need to be asked. Has she ever considered a sex change? Americans need to know.
They are not ‘progressives’, they are communists. Who have grown bolder after conning the Dems into redefining natural born for their own convenience. It’s high time we held the Democrats’ feet to the fire over just who they are allowing to run under their umbrella, in violation of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Control_Act_of_1954
She lost to Carper 35-65.
When politicians are Democrats it’s traditionally white male. When politicians are Republicans they are sexist racist misogynistic white supremacists.
Crowley would have a chance to win on the Independence ballot line if he were campaigning, but he isn’t, so he’ll get a smattering of protest votes but that’s all.
Pardon me, Working Families ballot line.
I’m not sure I’d feel flattered to be called brainless and egregiously silly, but Leftists are odd.
“Crowley would have a chance to win on the Independence ballot line if he were campaigning, but he isn’t, so he’ll get a smattering of protest votes but that’s all.”
He stayed on the ballot for a reason. He, apparently, said he wouldn’t campaign. But, why stay on the ballot? I think he realized that Ocasio-Cortez was the buffoon she turned out to be. Perhaps a month from the vote he’ll campaign by explaining to his voters how much money and how many jobs he brought to his district and how they’ll lose that as well as have a continuous gaffe machine in the House. By that time, Ocasio-Cortez may have run her fifteen minutes out. The media did her a disservice by giving her unlimited publicity. The more you see of her, the stupider she seems.
In NY getting off the ballot is difficult, the usual way people do it to they accept nomination to another office, some local office or judgeship. He could also move out of the state or die.
After losing the GOP gov primary in 2010 Rick Lazio, who had the Conservative line and didn’t want to split the GOP vote in November, accepted the nomination to a judicial post in the Bronx that no Republican had run for.
Chris Collins is gonna have to do that to get off the congressional ballot.
Crowley’s is a safe rat district, even the rat vote split in 2 wouldn’t give the GOP much of chance so there is little reason he would inconvenience himself in order to get off. People on the left on fixating on his still being on the ballot cause they are afraid he could win if he tried.
If he wants to run, there is little reason to wait. I hope he does, it would infuriate the progtards. Primary turnout was very light so he has a great argument that her win meant nothing. I doubt he has the balls though to challenge a “woman of color”.
That was an informative post. Thank you.
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