Dem defeats TeaParty Republican in CA special election

navycpo7 wrote: For AZ I would question the signatures. I would have to wonder if they were all legit. How do we know they were all American citizens. That is the problem with all of this. Both Parties need to pass a law on this that makes the voter provide proof of citizenship.

We would know because in order for the signatures to be validated before the election, they would all have to be proven eligible voters. That's kind of a cheap shot, don't you think?

This is the most NON story of the day. This was a huge Democrat district. It was totally expected. No news here. I am surprised that he came within 7000 votes though. Closer than I thought.

It is actually pretty good news for Republicans as to the direction things are going.

Ms. Hahn’s 9-percentage-point margin of victory, however, is underwhelming in a district where Democrats have an 18-point registration advantage.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.co ... democrats/

One common way to benchmark the results of a Congressional race is by comparing them to how the district voted for president. California’s 36th District, for instance, had given Barack Obama about 64 percent of its vote in 2008, or 11 percentage points more than the 53 percent of the vote he received nationwide. Since a vote for Ms. Hahn was also necessarily a vote against her lone opponent, Mr. Huey, we might reasonably have expected Ms. Hahn to prevail by twice that amount, or a net of 22 percentage points, assuming that the political environment was fairly neutral over all. Her actual 9-point margin of victory underachieved that benchmark by 13 points.

The Viking wrote: It is actually pretty good news for Republicans as to the direction things are going.

Gotta hand it to you.

I have never seen you fail to take any amount of bad news for Republicans and somehow spin it into good.

AspenValley wrote:

The Viking wrote: It is actually pretty good news for Republicans as to the direction things are going.

Gotta hand it to you.

I have never seen you fail to take any amount of bad news for Republicans and somehow spin it into good.

Well, if you read the article, it actually is a lot better results than expected. He actually was about 13% higher than he should have been in the loss. I am an optimist that this country will open their eyes and see the total mistake and failure they elected in 2008 and not do it again.

The Viking wrote: I am an optimist that this country will open their eyes and see the total mistake and failure they elected in 2008 and not do it again.

And I am a totally optimistic that people will have already forgotten in a few short years what a total mistake and failure they allowed to run this country from 2000-2008 that brought us to where we are now and will go ahead and elect another one of those.

Not that I see much has changed under Obama, as far as I can see it has just been more or less a Bush third term.

Where I'm pessimistic is in any chance of people waking up and realizing it doesn't make a rat's ass bit of difference who you elect to the Whitehouse when it is really big-biz lobbyists who are calling the shots.

AspenValley wrote:

The Viking wrote: Not that I see much has changed under Obama, as far as I can see it has just been more or less a Bush third term.

So if you didn't like Bush and feel Obama is just a third term of Bush only on steroids, then you must agree that we need someone new in the White House right?

Viking, shouldn't that be dumbroids, liaroids, or similar?

The Viking wrote:

AspenValley wrote:

The Viking wrote: Not that I see much has changed under Obama, as far as I can see it has just been more or less a Bush third term.

So if you didn't like Bush and feel Obama is just a third term of Bush only on steroids, then you must agree that we need someone new in the White House right?

No, what I'm saying is that it won't matter who sits in the Oval Office until we throw out the lobbyists and Supreme Court justices who think that corporations should have more say in how this country is run than the people do.