Posted on 04/12/2017 8:34:43 AM PDT by rktman
Republicans pulled out a victory in Kansas in the first of four U.S. House special elections to replace GOP congressmen named to top jobs in President Donald Trump's administration, but the next contest for a seat in Georgia could be tougher to hold.
The margin of victory Tuesday for Kansas Republican Ron Estes in the 4th District special election slid to only seven percentage points from a 31-point margin in November, when incumbent Mike Pompeo was running before he was appointed Trump's CIA director.
In a further warning sign for Republicans, Estes narrowly lost the district's most populous county around the city of Wichita to his Democratic opponent James Thompson, a political newcomer. Trump won that county by 18 points.
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The most obvious reason for the fall off would be the circular firing squad antics of the House Republicans over the Federal Health Care farce. Hopefully the boys and girls will get the message.
A far greater concern, at least where this district is concerned, is Trump's proposed 21% cut in the Ag Department budget. That would basically eliminate all discretionary spending and do away with a lot of programs the farmers in this district depend on. Add Trumpcare to that and 2018 could be interesting.
My take away from this is that the rats ‘nationalized’ this election...by pouring in out of state resources. This usually happens with endangered seats, where he rats think thy have a shot at winning.
To see them dabble with this safe seat election indicates, to me at least, that the mid-terms will feature a Tsunami of party funds.
And I don’t know what to do...I don’t particularly trust the RNC enough to give them money right now...but I’m sure the rats will be well funded.
And, Dems barely put a candidate with a pulse against Pompeo and spent no money trying to win the seat in 2016.
Demoncrats are saying they consider the “narrow” difference in votes to be a win for them. I hope they keep “winning” that way.
What liberal direction? He continues to negotiate a health care deal with the Freedom Caucus, deportations for illegals are way up and he refused to sign the Paris Climate Change deal. And, Gorsuch was confirmed to the Supreme Court.
If there is a problem it is with House leadership, especially the refusal to providing funding for a border wall.
The liberal has raised $9,000,000 mostly from NY and Kalifornia. The Democraps will be out in force, and the Conservatives and Republicans (not necessarily the same thing) had better trundle their asses to the polling place if they want to stop him.
Thompson was hardly better known than Giroux was and the Democrats spent about the same amount of money in 2016 as they did in this special.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/james-thompson-kansas-election_us_58ea3423e4b05413bfe38f8b
Libs trumped lots of big abortion, gun cintrol, gay lobby money to beat a guy who could best be described as an engineer, accountant or bank teller (no intent to besmirch anyone in these fields, just trying to describe Ron Estes to you.)
Libs tried pulling a charm offensive, lying about all their guy's intention, especially in Wichita, which could be described as pretty strong minority community (poor blacks & Latinos, both legal & illegal) who will vote as their liberal handlers tell them to vote.
Libs might try a do over in 2018 but no conservative in KS is interested in leaving this seat to shysters and carpetbagger anti-Trumpster, Clinton land!
Yep, they poured a little less than $300 thousand into it...and were outspent by the Republican by a factor of over 4 to 3. What's your point?
Romney also won this district by a wide margin, 15 points. This was an underperformace but not earth-shattering.
It’s hilarious the rodents think all the races will be this close in 2018. Estes will likely perform at GOP standard next year.
That money was raised and spent on a special election that last weeks. That is little different that raising and spending money in an regular election that last months.
And that would mean that the Republicans still poured more money into the election than the Democrats did.
True, those are likely the two reasons for Estes’ subpar performance. Estes was also chosen at a convention, as opposed to a primary, and those candidates have often proven to be somewhat poor in special elections (witness NY state after Zero’s election). I was surprised to see ex-Congressman Todd Tiahrt, who badly wanted his old seat back, placed 3rd at the convention. Presumably, he might’ve performed far better as a well-known name in that district.
There is well-founded concern that the Dems might take the KS Governorship in 2018 because of one simple fact (excluding the unpopularity of Brownback), not since 1964 has either party had a successor elected from the same party (when Republican Bill Avery succeeded fellow Republican John Anderson, Jr.). Beginning with the defeat of Avery in 1966, it could be counted on to swing back and forth like clockwork.
Popular Sec of State Kris Kobach is a potential leading candidate for our side, but he hasn’t officially gotten in yet. Of course, back in 1974, the popular Conservative Democrat Attorney General Vern Miller fully expected to hold the Governorship for the Dems on the strength of Watergate. Instead, he was upset by RINO “Moderate” Bob Bennett (the 1st of 3 RINOs elected up until Brownback, the first Conservative Republican since Avery).
” Vern Miller”
Another Joan Finney? Why the hell did she switch to the rats anyway?
I was guess that in typical race in that district the ratio is a lot more than 4-3. Most parties spend virtually nothing in districts that their candidate won't be competitive in.
I can't even tell you who the Democrat that ran in 2016 against Bob Gibbs was in my district in Ohio. I don't remember seeing a single ad for the candidate.
The point is that your spin, the same one libtards are using, is hyperbole being used to advance a political message.
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