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Wendy Davis Campaign Blames Massive Defeat on Ebola
LIFE NEWS ^ | 11/7/14 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 11/07/2014 7:08:45 PM PST by Morgana

In one of the most bizzare explanations for losing a campaign ever, a spokesman for pro-abortion Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis blamed the massive loss to pro-life Governor-elect Greg Abbott on ebola.

From Breitbart:

wendydavis11Texas State Senator Wendy Davis was steamrolled in her bid to become the state’s next governor, and it appears that her staff believes Ebola has something to do with the failure of her campaign.

Speaking on behalf of Davis’ campaign, Communications Director Zac Petkanas told the Wall Street Journal, “The losses that you are seeing in very blue states are simply amplified in states like Texas where there is already a structural advantage for Republicans,” he said. The Journal added that, “Another challenge, [Petkanas] said, was that Texas was at the center of two issues — immigration and the Ebola scare — that helped drive Republican voters to the polls.”

Many Americans do remain concerned about Ebola entering the country from heavily-afflicted nations in West Africa. However, most analysts attribute Davis’ loss to a poorly-run campaign and inability to connect with Texas voters.

Writing at LifeNews, Luis Zaffirini offers a well-thought-out analysis of how Davis’ extreme pro-abortion views turned off Texas voters, including Hispanics, making it so she was unable to obtain even 40 percent of the vote in the race.

After Wendy Davis rose to near stardom when she staged an 11-hour filibuster to block a pro-life bill in the Texas Senate, the Texas Democratic Party tried to use her candidacy in the Texas gubernatorial election to rebuild party infrastructure that had dissipated during their nearly-two-decades-long absence from statewide office. She was subsequently held up as a new paradigm of a supposed abortion consensus though it was apparent that she stood in direct opposition to the actual consensus of the people of Texas.

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Battleground Texas, a Democratic group that has spent a year and a half trying to make Texas more hospitable to Democrats, hoped to prove a point by Davis capture a larger percentage of the vote than in the 2010 contest, when Democrat Bill White lost with 43% of the vote. Senator Davis lost last night with a little less than 39% of the vote.

This places her somewhere between Bill White and the 2006 Democratic candidate, Chris Bell, when there were 4 gubernatorial candidates on the ballot who each took more than 12% of the vote.

If these campaigns were trying to prove a point, they certainly proved two important ones: that running a pro-abortion candidate is not a winning formula in the Lone Star State, and that the Latino vote is neither sympathetic to the pro-abortion message nor is it monolithic.


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 2014election; abortion; abortionbarbie; billwhite; chrisbell; ebola; election2014; gregabbott; luiszaffirini; prolife; wendydavis; zacpetkanas
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Wendy your face looks like Ebola!

(I'm starting to sound like a third grader)

1 posted on 11/07/2014 7:08:46 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Did he fail to help her?


2 posted on 11/07/2014 7:11:33 PM PST by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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To: Morgana

3 posted on 11/07/2014 7:12:08 PM PST by struggle
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To: Morgana

uh yeah. So keeping doing what you have been doing. It’s really working for you.


4 posted on 11/07/2014 7:13:28 PM PST by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: Morgana

Does she mean the one from Kenya?

If so, I agree.


5 posted on 11/07/2014 7:13:47 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Morgana

“Texas was at the center of two issues — immigration and the Ebola scare — that helped drive Republican voters to the polls.” “

Uh,,, that’s not a sideshow, that actually is a huge reason. This is very much in the zone of “other than that Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?” Yeah, other than Ebola and a human wave of people who have never seen a toilet flooding into the state,,, why everything was fine.

Freaking lunatic,,,,


6 posted on 11/07/2014 7:14:11 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Morgana

Well, I suppose Obama’s stupid and evil mishandling of the Texas Ebola case may have lost her a few more votes.


7 posted on 11/07/2014 7:14:12 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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. . . and it appears that her staff believes Ebola has something to do with the failure of her campaign . . .

It appears that the members of her staff have been smoking large quantities of crack.

8 posted on 11/07/2014 7:18:49 PM PST by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: Morgana

Of course there those other problems too, you know, with the Planets being totally out of alignment and everything.
The rumor is that earth is overdue for a Polar Shift didn’t help any either. Poor Wendy! It was on the Science Channel just yesterday!


9 posted on 11/07/2014 7:19:06 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Morgana
The originator of the "vote your lady parts" was her mentor Obama.

If she wants to blame anyone it should be him:


10 posted on 11/07/2014 7:22:32 PM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: Hoodat

Just another day at busy ditches are us ........ doom on em all.


11 posted on 11/07/2014 7:23:54 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Morgana

What a maroon.


12 posted on 11/07/2014 7:28:39 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: Morgana

A rich, white Limousine Liberal who got it all by marrying her sugar daddy. And she’s going to convince “poor blacks” and “single women” that she can get them free abortions through Obamacare if they turn out in droves and elect her. That’s why she went down in flames. And that “abortion Barbie” moniker will hound her for the rest of her life. Her political career is totally kaput.


13 posted on 11/07/2014 7:36:49 PM PST by jespasinthru (Proud member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy)
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To: Morgana

And a flat tire, a flood, somebody stole my car...

14 posted on 11/07/2014 7:44:18 PM PST by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: Morgana

I thought it was racism...or sexism...


15 posted on 11/07/2014 7:54:40 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Morgana

This article may seem to be incredibly stupid, but remember you are dealing with Abortion Barbie and her group of insane followers.


16 posted on 11/07/2014 7:56:02 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Put lipstick on a Communist and call it a Progressive, but it's still a Communist with lipstick.)
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To: Morgana

It was the strawberries.


17 posted on 11/07/2014 7:56:47 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Morgana

“Battleground Texas, a Democratic group that has spent a year and a half trying to make Texas more hospitable to Democrats,...”

That’s the problem, Wendy thought all her democrats were like the Battleground Texas (gonna turn Texas purple) blue stater crowd. Ain’t so.

If she had taken a little more time and effort to get to know them better, she would have discovered there are two others types of democrats in Texas: Those that have switched to the Republican party and those who are thinking about it.

Thank you Wendy for helping the latter decide.

/SARC, not really...


18 posted on 11/07/2014 8:49:02 PM PST by Texicanus (Texas, it's a whole 'nother country.)
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To: Morgana

Try Kookifornica next time barbie. The old leftist hags there will be needing a ‘star’ to replace them someday and in need of a blonde queen of the demented.


19 posted on 11/07/2014 9:05:17 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Hoodat
It appears that the members of her staff have been smoking large quantities of crack.

I do not even think crack can explain this logic and I am a reformed child of the 60s.

20 posted on 11/07/2014 9:07:26 PM PST by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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