Republicans Lost 20 Of Past 29 House Special Elections
I am still amazed at the Democratic victory in the 23rd Congressional District in New York, and the way the conservatives imploded by thier own design. I really have found the analysis of this race fascinating, and the trivia aspect of it is worth remembering.
Lost amid the Republican euphoria surrounding Tuesday’s elections is this inconvenient fact: The GOP just got its clock cleaned, again, in another high-stakes House special election.
It shouldn’t have come as a surprise, since Republicans have lost 20 of the past 29 House special elections, dating back to January 2003. And in perhaps the most worrisome aspect of the trend, the GOP lost its fifth consecutive competitive special election in Republican-friendly territory.
In New York’s historically Republican 23rd District, where Democrat Bill Owens prevailed Tuesday, the GOP squandered a 43 percent to 31 percent voter registration advantage over the Democratic Party. In New York’s 20th District, where Scott Murphy — like Owens, another unknown Democrat with no experience in elective office — won a March special election, the GOP blew a 65,000-voter registration edge.
In both of those 2009 New York races, however, the voter registration totals are misleading: Both seats have trended to the left in recent years. And the two contests were tight, decided by 4 percentage points or less.
But the bottom line — and that’s all that really matters — is that Democrats won those closely contested races, continuing a two-year streak of stealing seats right out from under the GOP’s nose.
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I find the whining of the conservatives about the way the Republican candidate was chosen hilarious. In some states, that’s the system, the party bosses choose the candidate.
They had no problem when the Virginia party decided to choose their 2008 U.S. Senate nominee, more conservative former Gov. Gilmore over the more electable Rep. Tom Davis at a party convention, dominated by ultraconservatives rather than in a primary which would have favored Davis.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/magazine/05Davis-t.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print
Result? Gilmore lost by 2 to 1 in the general election.
Oh by the way, apparently Repugnants and Conservatives don’t feel it necessary to actually live in the district they’re running for. Both of the NY special elections this year had candidates (first Rep, second Con.) who didn’t live in the district. And in the most recent case, according to Dick “the dick” Armey, didn’t know local issues, because that’s um, “parochial.”
Couldn’t happen to nicer people, imho
Of course, the Leftist hacks in the lib media don’t want to see it that way. They don’t want to take all those factors into account. They prefer to regurgitate the Obama spin rather than fairly assess what happened in that race.
I think it’s laughable that the lib media are hyperventilating over NY-23 while downplaying the defeats in Virginia and New Jersey.
I don’t see why you are so excited for about this race in upstate New York. They had a RINO candidate actively sabotaging the Republican Party. Small wonder the Republicans lost. They had a Republican Party candidate who was actively a traitor to the party.
If Dede were a loyal person, she would have said, ‘I’m resigning. Obviously, the people in the GOP column don’t support me, and I endorse the Republican.’
Instead, she resigned and endorsed the Democrat. That’s unheard of. That’s incredibly disloyal. It’s shockingly disloyal, and small wonder the Republicans lost with that kind of woman on the ticket.