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He lives outside the district. I guess you can't stand people following the rules?
LOL what a weak comeback. OBVIOUSLY has was qualified to run in the district by their rules. It's very possible the people in that district did not know anything of him yet he still got 46% of the vote. Amazing and very telling of how people feel towards the Democrats. Jus look at the New Jersey race. Even with the liberal messiah camagning the Democrat lost BIG.
LOL what a weak comeback. OBVIOUSLY has was qualified to run in the district by their rules. It's very possible the people in that district did not know anything of him yet he still got 46% of the vote. Amazing and very telling of how people feel towards the Democrats. Jus look at the New Jersey race. Even with the liberal messiah camagning the Democrat lost BIG.
Yes, here's what a Jerseyite has to say:
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Originally Posted by lammius
Speaking for NJ, we elected Christie because we hate Corzine. It's not about
Obama. It's not about Pelosi or Reid. Corzine didn't live up to his 2005 campaign promises. He didn't take a stand against corruption. He rolled back prop tax rebates. These are the issues NJ voters are angry about. They're the reason Corzine had a 30% approval rating, and they're the reason a lot of Jerseyans voted him out.
This was a state election on issues in our state. It wasn't a referendum on the Obama administration (which has nearly a 60% approval rating in NJ). I think exit polls show that 60% or more of voters in Nj said national politics had nothing to do with their decision, and among those who said it was a factor, they were pretty evenly split between corzine and Christie.
And they had so much time to make a difference....what? Three days?
Yeah, the same three days that Owens had to re-tool his campaign in order to the changing circumstances. The same incredibly short time frame of Owens having Scozzafavas endorsement. The momentum that Hoffman had in the last few days was massive and he was despite all that momentum he was incapable of winning a conservative district.
Many districts went for Obama in 2008. He won, remember? This district, under many names and with many different boundaries, has had a Republican rep since 1871. It's a "true" conservative district, all right.
He lost, the carpetbagger.
Ah, yes, gerrymandering. It certainly does make things confusing and oh, so convenient for the left.
He wasn't exactly a carpetbagger. The district line move on HIM.
Explain to me how anyone can accurately compare these apples to oranges, when the district has had many different names and boundaries. Typical liberal New Yorker smoke and mirrors.
Yeah....a no-name outsider wrapped in the conservative mantle...and he lost. All that big-name help, and he lost. Held by the GOP for over a century, and he lost. It doesn't look good for conservatives in the future. Referring to Scozzafava as a "scumbug" when she's a Republican is another one under the bus, and isn't great recruitment material. There are more new "moderates"
every day. We all know that they're refugees from the extremism anyway...Republican Refugees.
He may have been a no-name, but he is far from an outsider. He was born and raised in that area, and was a business owner in that area.
Keep telling yourself that it doesn't look good for conservatives in the future. You've completely missed the issue with most republicans - we're as angry with most of the members of our party as we are with dems. Scozzofava is a case in point - she had NONE of the conservative values that most republicans want. Hence, Doug Hoffman, who is a no-name no longer.
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