Posted on 11/03/2010 2:06:32 AM PDT by DemforBush
New Orleans — Republican U.S. Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao has lost the election in his New Orleans-area district, a rare seat that Democrats were able to snatch from the GOP...
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BTW, his opponent, Cedric Richmond, once had his law license suspended for submitting falsified documents. Looks like back to business as usual for William Jefferson's old seat.
Yup. Cao’s vote for Obamacare made him political roadkill. In a way, if you don’t stand on principle, you deserve to lose.
Yup. Cao’s vote for Obamacare made him political roadkill. In a way, if you don’t stand on principle, you deserve to lose.
His vote for Obamacare rendered him toast.
This was not a conservative loss, it was a RINO loss!
Cao is the marquee RINO, and he lost! Good Riddens scumbag!
Onward with RINO Kill (politically speaking, of course)
Yup. It was apparent he could never be re-elected in a heavily Democratic district where ironically enough, Obamacare turned out to be as toxic as in the rest of the country.
darn..you step in fire you get burned.
Cao didn’t have a chance in this mostly black district.
For a while that was technically a Republican district.
Too bad that Cao was not a bolder, more intuitive man.
people seem to forget that it was Christie, and Cao, and Scott Brown among a few others that started the tidal wave.....today's results nationwide are directly tied to the efforts of Cao, and Christie because their wins gave us HOPE....
Politically speaking, it was no major loss. And it’s just one of those seats that the GOP isn’t going to win until and unless the district is redrawn.
people seem to forget that it was Christie, and Cao, and Scott Brown among a few others that started the tidal wave.....today's results nationwide are directly tied to the efforts of Cao, and Christie because their wins gave us HOPE....
Cao did not start anything, he was elected in 2008.
New Jersey and Virginia started the wave.
Actually, Cao’s win of two years ago was a fluke - he beat William Jefferson, who had recently been convicted of bribery. Furthermore, Cao won in a low-turnout runoff that occurred a month after Obama’s win.
Here’s the district’s numbers.
64% Black
30% White
65% Democrat
11% GOP
24% Other
LOL, having Cao in there for a cycle was cool.
He was always a dead man walking, but for a while that district was not Democrat.
Cao needed to vote for Obamacare in a 64% black district. He cannot ignore the constituents he is obligated to represent.
I agree. You just know it stuck in the craw of the State-Run Media to have an R stuck in a solid D district.
Having a Republican voting for Obamacare was very ‘uncool’.
Good riddance.
Huh??? I thought Cao voted for the "healthcare overhaul".
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