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.
Isn’t her 15 minutes about up?
She old Rhode Island carpetbagger hung her star on a bunch of plastic coathangers that melted under the Texas Son.
I do think that one reason some of the Democratic candidates In TX did not fare as well as they hoped, was that our Voter ID law was in place.
Well, at least Wendy Davis didn’t say her landslide defeat was caused by global warming (aka climate change). Her defeat was actually caused by a deadly African virus and not an abysmal vote count? Fascinating, Wendy.
Other than that you are another Mother Teresa.
“Wendy Davis Campaign Blames Massive Defeat on Ebola”
Wendy should blame her mom for being pro-life when Wendy was a mere fetus.
She lost because of the African virus known as Obama.
Yes - her politics are so close to president ebola’s that the voters couldn’t stand her - like him, she’s a narcissist that can’t believe that it’s her - it has to be someone/something else....
Personally, I would rather have pro life people in power as the country faces invasion and diseases like Ebola. Democrats are way too easy with murder and mayhem.
She misspoke, she meant Obama.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Thanks for the ping!
I think her 3-4 appearances on MSNBC were actually an audition, and she will fit in just fine there, with the rest of her left looney ilk.
I have told several people that the "Empty Wheelchair" ad gaffe cost her maybe 2-4% by itself/. Off the chart mean spiritiness really turns off the female vote.
Incredibly, she enlisted the First Wookie to run a campaign radio ad the weekend before the election. In Texas????... Yeah, that’s a winning strategy. /s
You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
Or the full moon. Or the polar vortex. Or the swallows returning to Capistrano. Whatever.
Wendy, go out and pull those live babies out of Bronco’s trash bin.
Tell me how it works you ugly pustule of waste.
The Voters thought Abortion Barbie had Ebola?
So much for the Sympathy Vote.
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