Posted on 11/12/2008 9:38:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Cindy Sheehan, a leader of the US anti-war movement (such as it is), ran for the congressional seat held by Democrat and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (8th district, San Francisco).
Sheehan, running as an independent, came in second to Pelosi, easily beating the Republican challenger. As a result, Pelosi’s support plummeted by almost 20 percentage points from 2006.
Nonetheless, one might assume that this will not have much an affect on Pelosi’s estimate of her, or the party’s, electoral security looking ahead to 2010. Here are the results:
Nancy Pelosi (Dem) 162,276 71.9%
Cindy Sheehan (Ind) 36,894 16.4%
Dana Walsh (Rep) 21,540 9.5%
Philip Z. Berg (Lib) 5,054 2.2%
By contrast, Pelosi won 80.4% in 2006, against 10.8% for the Republican candidate, 7.4% for a Green, and 1.4% for a Libertarian.
Going back to the last presidential election, in 2004, she won 84.7% against 11.7% for the Republican and 3.6% for the candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party.
She’s slipping!
(I can’t help but wonder why Sheehan did not run with either the Green or the Peace & Freedom Party. Isn’t she supposed to be a movement candidate? Neither of these parties had a candidate in the district this year, however.)
I honestly thought the Repub would edge Cindy. I’m sure it’s not the first congressional race were we placed third but that’s really appalling. Party support should never be that low.
Billyboy as I recall you predicted 30%+ for the wackjob.
SF still had a minor GOP presence into the ‘70s (half the city had a moderate GOP Congressman, Bill Mailliard, until 1974), and even early ‘80s, but they went ultraleft fast and viscerally reacted against center-right politics under Reagan. By the late ‘80s, the party presence there was dead. One big reason is that the city just isn’t family-friendly, indeed, it is either the #1 or one of the top Congressional districts devoid of children with two-parent households. It used to be a good indication of how Republican or Democrat a district would vote based upon that measure, with fewer children and two-parent households being more Dem. Most of those aforementioned families cleared out by the ‘70s and ‘80s.
“It used to be a good indication of how Republican or Democrat a district would vote based upon that measure, with fewer children and two-parent households being more Dem.”
Excluding non-white seats of course. Everybody in my ratastic area has kids.
Disinformation is false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately. It may include the distribution of forged documents, manuscripts, and photographs, or propagation of malicious rumors and fabricated intelligence. Disinformation should not be confused with misinformation, which is merely false information spread unintentionally.
In espionage or military intelligence, disinformation is the deliberate spreading of false information to mislead an enemy as to one’s position or course of action. In politics, disinformation is the deliberate attempt to deflect voter support of an opponent, disseminating false statements of innuendo based on the candidates vulnerabilities as revealed by opposition research. In both cases, it also includes the distortion of true information in such a way as to render it useless.
“Plowboy””LN Smithee “notashill””2ndDivisionVet” either has no life and is sadistically obsessed with Cindy, or a paid CIA agent to spread the disinformation and token words like “moonbat” “Crazy Cindy” Post names of staff members, spin all news stories, and spam all comments on articles about Cindy. He posts all over the net,this forum, and on every Cindy Sheehan articles’ with the same comments attacking Cindy. What a sick loser on www.cindysheehanwatch.com.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.