You are of course correct in viewing the November election in this congressional district, not to mention that Tedisco (R) was 4% down going into this special election.
He also had unpaid volunteers working on his behalf against the money that Obama put in with his ACORN type paid volunteers.
In spite of that, it looks like the Obamunists may still lose. It’s most certainly a good sign if they do.
And rascal(RAT) can go down in flames with them. :)
I also agree..we made good headway in turning this district back to Red. I am also in the district and Murphy’s Hogan connections are what gave him the push from unknown, and it did matter to some of the Dims, or undecideds on the fence in the upper portion of the district. He featured the Hogan family heavily in his ads.
Got to be the ACORN types I got a couple calls from - never had calls like that in the past.
One ditz called and told me she was from the Board of Elections, and she kept insisting she was, even when I pointed out that the BdElec would never ..ever..call and ask how someone was voting.
Pretty stupod, as the tele# was the same # as a call I got a week before from someone identifying themselves as from Murphy’s campaign. ( from my caller ID)
They are too stupid for words, or they think the voters are. On election day, I got a call ( 4 hours after I had voted) telling me “our records indicate that you have not yet voted...blah..blah) now how in he!! would they know.
Anyway, my concen now is if Murphy squeeks into that seat, then it’s harder to get rid of him. And the absentee votes will decide this. I tried looking through results of the fall election, and couldn’t figure anything out...anyone else have any ideas how to get the mix
of how the absentee votes fell last election? Especially this district.
We have ...
- seniors gone south for winter
- college students
- military
~Kate
I just lurked at Kos and saw this comment - thought it was interesting, don't know why I never considered this before:
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I was on the phone just now, reading part of this article to a neighbor. When I got to the part about Republican registrations outweighing Democratic, she said "well you know, the only reason my husband and I are registered Republicans is because of the town elections. Otherwise, we vote Democratic."
I don't know what other towns see, but ours is, oddly, controlled by two factions of the GOP, not two different parties. Town board and supervisor seats are more or less won and lost in the GOP primary here. And I suspect that's true elsewhere in the district.
So I wonder if there are more RINOs who won't ever change their affiliation, just because of the entrenchment in local politics...