Posted on 09/12/2019 8:27:04 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Last week the Democrats were touting the special election in North Carolina’s 9th District as the first major contest of the 2020 cycle, and the polls indicated that Democrat Dan McCready might win what should be a pretty safe GOP seat. By Wednesday morning, after Republican Dan Bishop had won, their focus had shifted and much commentary was devoted to his “thin margin of victory.” Little notice was taken of certain voting patterns that should frighten the Democrats. Specifically, McCready did far worse than expected in every county but one, and many of those counties are dominated by minority voters.
The most unnerving example, from the Democratic perspective, is rural Robeson County. The ethnic makeup of this county is as follows: Native American (38.6%), White (25.7%), Black (24%), Hispanic (8.52%), Two or More Races (2.15%), Asian (0.66%), Other (0.275%). On Tuesday the Democrat received a fraction of the votes he received in 2018, running for the same seat. Ryan Matsumoto of Inside Elections provides the gory details: “McCready won Robeson County by only 1.11 points, a MASSIVE decrease from his 15.31 point margin last November.” In 2012, Obama carried Robeson by 17 points.
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Some critics note that Trump won the district by 12 percent, and say that Bishops victory of 2% signals trouble for Trump, but don’t know/care that the district was redrawn in 2017 to the advantage of demoncraps.
Which would all go a long way toward the media’s “cone of silence” on this one.
Because it was already posted? /snark
It only warned them they need to cheat more to win an election.
Democrat judges re-drew NC’s districts to benefit, naturally, Democrats, but the Dem still didn’t win.
This fact should be used as a sledgehammer by conservatives.
Trump voters will swarm the polls in 2020.
America is headed in the right direction.
Now if only we could get someone to get the AG off his keyster, and get busy prosecuting the swamp rat conspiracy perps...
I have a theory that the conventional wisdom about turnout is changing. Traditionally, Republicans turned out in bigger numbers in mid-terms while the Dems turned out for generals. But Trump has in his base many who used to be in the Dem base. So, I think the Trump vote will turn out better in 2020 than it did in the 2018 mid-terms. We’ll see.
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