He doesn’t know how to raise money, in his competitive district that means he’ll lose sooner or later, if not in the primary then to a democrat, not this year probably but, in 2016? Bad politicians tend not to last, look at Jean Schmitt in Ohio, she had much closer races with democrats than she should have and finally lost the primary in 2012.
He lost the special election for the last 2 months of McCotter’s term to a nobody rat, after having won the GOP primary only because no one else was on the ballot. He only won the general election for the full term because the newly redrawn seat was slightly more Republican and the democrat (a different one than in the special) was a Pakistani.
He’s no Amash, I’ll give you that, his record is fine, he doesn’t appear to be the giant Paultard Amash clone I feared he’d be.
But I don’t want to give a seat away to democrats out of some need to defend a fluke winner because he’s a good guy. We need good guys who know what they’re doing, especially in non safe seats.
I respectfully agree to disagree with you guys on this. I prioritize crushing the marxist swine, too much you may think.
It looks like the Democrat bigots voted for the Libertarian instead of the Pakistani.
That Libertarian vote will be bigger again if establishment hack Trott wins.
If Kerry is such a weak candidate find someone other than a foreclosure king to primary him in 2016.
Isn’t the Democrat this time called Anil Kumar? Will the low info voters suddenly switch because he not as exotic as a muslim?
Kerry got 30,000 more votes in the general where it mattered. Pretty much all the extra turnout in the general.
http://ballotpedia.org/Michigan%27s_11th_Congressional_District_elections,_2012
Democratic Syed Taj 44.4% 158,879
Republican
Kerry Bentivolio 50.8% 181,788
Libertarian John Tatar 2.7% 9,637
Green Steven Paul Duke 1.3% 4,569
NLP Daniel Johnson 0.9% 3,251
Write-in James Van Gilder 0% 14
Write-in Ralph Sherman 0% 1
Total Votes 358,139
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan%27s_11th_congressional_district_special_election,_2012
Michigan’s 11th congressional district special election, 2012[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic David Curson 159,258 48.39%
Republican Kerry Bentivolio 151,736 46.10%
Libertarian John Tatar 11,606 3.53%
U.S. Taxpayers Marc Sosnowski 6,529 1.98%
Totals 329,137 100.00%