Quote: (08-27-2018 05:23 PM)Rotten Wrote:
That win was a pure race/ethnic power play. The changing demographics of the district demanded a changed representative and were willing to elect a 26 year old bartender because she had the right last name for the district (even at the expense of having the next Speaker represent the district)
All Ocasio-Cortez wants is to redistribute wealth from the rest of the country to her constituents and co-ethnics.
You have a point in that her district has traditionally voted between 75% to 85% Democrat and it is roughly one-half Hispanic. Short of a member of the Mexican Mafia (and even then, who knows?) the Dems could elect a "sandwich a jambon" if it were young and telegenic.
Her otherwise better qualified Republican opponent is going to lose but it isn't really about that one congressional district because that is a lost cause. In the bigger picture, the Democrats made a strategic blunder in framing her as the future of the party and positing that democratic socialism is a thing.
The fake news left wing media has embraced her and put her in the national spotlight. Setting aside cherry-picked, bug-eyed freeze frames and the fact that what comes out of her mouth is pure drivel, she is fairly attractive and well spoken so she is good at preaching to the choir and the media is willing to be her pulpit.
Bad move because the right nation-wide is grabbing on to how vapid she is and how useless the ideology is. I would guess that half of Democrats would wish she would shut up but they are too cowed to say anything. The GOP is 100% against her and independents are realizing what a fruitloop she is. Again, this is on the national level, which matters for all the congressional races that are not a foregon conclusion.
A recent Fox News Poll says that the Dems mave an 11-point lead over the GOP due entirely to women. The margin of error is 3%, the common pattern is for Dems to take a landslide in the districts they win and then lose by just a few points in many more districts/states, the poll was conducted amongst registered voters rather than likely voters, and roughly 12% didn't pick either the Democrats or Republicans.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/35084/fox...nk-berrien