Posted on 07/02/2018 2:57:44 PM PDT by upchuck
The New York Times staff was stunned when Democratic Congressman Joe Crowley lost his primary. They never saw it coming, and when he lost, they got it wrong again.
"Crowley’s Loss Heralds an ‘End of an Era’: Last of the Party Bosses" read the headline.
This was not a rebuke of party bosses. This was not a reform. This was simple arithmetic.
Larry Sabato got it wrong, too. He told the Times, "Political machines have been on the decline almost everywhere for decades, and that process has accelerated. Crowley is a perfect example. He grew up in another time and another way of doing business."
Baloney. Sabato cannot see what is plainly in front of his eyes. He is a numbers man, and yet he ignored the key to Crowley's District 14 in New York: its demographics. The district is 49.80% Hispanic, 18.41% Non-Hispanic White, 16.24% Asian, 11.39% Black, and so on.
Do the math. A Hispanic candidate has three times the likelihood of winning in that district than a non-Hispanic white person has.
This is what New York City politics has always been about: ethnicity. Fiorello LaGuardia won the mayor's race in the depth of the Depression not because he was a Republican but because he was Italian-American. He became the city's first Italian-American mayor because so many Italian-Americans voted for him.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won because she is Hispanic. The Hispanics in the district looked around and voted for one of their own. Ethnic groups and black people do that.
The Times story went on for more than 1,300 words. Hispanic did not appear once. That's odd since liberals keep saying Republicans must appeal to Hispanic voters.
Citing the wrong reason for her victory was deliberate. Liberals want to push the narrative that socialism is coming!
"There’s an Easy Answer to Why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Won: Socialism," the Intercept reported.
That is nonsense. Hispanics largely voted for her because she is Hispanic. Socialists have been great at recruiting frontmen for minority groups. She is just the latest.
I’ve read elsewhere that the republicans didn’t even get a candidate on the ballot in that district. It’s too far left for any (R) to have a chance. FReepers, feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
Presuming all of the votes were legit, she won because she got more people to vote than Cromley. The challenge is that she got a very small fraction of the district’s votes. My question is whether there is a credible Republican running against her that will go toe-to-toe and challenge her socialist views? Focus on that and ignore race, gender, lies about family upbringing, etc. She’s a 28 year old bar tender with very anti-American socialist views. I seriously doubt that the residents of that district agree with them.
White guilt earns you a lot of votes too FRiend!
At my local Catholic church, most of the people who constantly show up in the middle of the week to pray for the end of abortion in this nation are minority: Filipino, etc...
“”””This is just the primary, right?”””””
Yes. But the media acts like she just beat Trump for the presidency and will start tomorrow.
The MSMLSD think that a dog would be a better president than Trump.
You make good points Reno. Thank you.
At my parish in northeastern NJ the only people under 60 who show up at all seem to be the same minorities; outside of some Poles and a few older Americans, all of our new priests are as well.
She is their poster child because she is the “anti-Trump”; he represents taxpayers while she represents many “takers”, he represents Americans while she represents an otherized mob. Personally I’m more concerned with our gubernatorial election here in NJ; we have enough takers now to vote in a guy who publicly stated he’d raise taxes before the election, and this will only accelerate the flight of wealth and Americans from the state. The enemedia has doubled down on the “fake news” BS, telling how much more we’ll get for our higher taxes than stingy Chris Christie the tax-cutter would give us; it is primarily going to schools (read: through the teachers’ unions and on to Dem coffers). This Latina won’t have nearly as much impact as our governor, though they will both have the same effect: more people stop pulling the wagon and walking away, while masses continue to pile into the slowing, overloaded wagon.
BTW, both states are making a concerted push to keep the “temporary” Puerto Ricans fleeing the storm damage up here, for the same reasons they both want open borders: They’ve lost so many American taxpayers, they need more sheep (ideally accompanied by federal dollars - Section 8, WIC, SNAP, etc.) to keep the lights on.
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