<p>Just kidding. Of course it isn’t. But still. You lefty kooks can’t find a candidate who can win Duke Cunningham’s seat? Despite all the combined efforts and political acumen of TheDad and Mr. B?</p>
<p>Gee, she got almost half of the votes in a very republican district that Bush got 70%plus in…what does say, it says that many many many Republicans voted for a Democrat, and that the GOP put in almost twice as much money into that race, and that it took a NATIONAL influx of GOP money to BARELY beat a Democrat in a highly republican area…so Republicans aren’t just walking lock step anymore </p>
<p>And the republican didn’t even get 50% of the vote, that is amazing…so less than half the people, mostly republicans, voted for him…</p>
<p>Sure hope there’s a Repub landslide. The Dems haven’t done a darn thing to deserve otherwise.</p>
<p>The immigration issue did her in. She sided with McCain/Kennedy and their bill. Bilbray wants to build a wall across the state and arm it with police and National Guard. In this very Republican district (notice I don’t call them “righty kooks”), the wall wins.
There really isn’t any issue in this border district that these folks care more about than keeping out the Mexicans. I’'m amazed she got 45% of the vote.</p>
<p>Many dems agree with the reps on the immigration issue, I might add.</p>
<p>I mean, the “lefty kooks” agree with them, excuse me.</p>
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That’s exactly what Kerry got in that “very Republican district” very much like the “very Republican district” in which I reside, which went strongly for Kerry thanks to soccer-mom twits. Tea leaves are hard to read, but still. If you can’t take the seat after a catastrophe like Cunningham, it shows that there is little respect for the Donkeys even in Lala-land.</p>
<p>I had to laugh at NPR on this one. HUGE buildup by Cokie et al when they thought the Dems might take it. Then today—Pfft. A little story by some no name guy saying basically that the R should have won by more.</p>
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<p>I don’t understand your reasoning. A Republican is found to be a crook (which has been known for a while) and all the Republicans are supposed to rush to the other party? Makes no sense when they have a guy that agrees with them and is clean, as far as the law goes. Why change when they have a good alternative?<br>
This rich San Diego district will never go for a populist candidate. Like I said, it’s amazing she got 45% of the vote when their Republican candidate is not problematic.</p>
<p>Driver, you kind of lost me after “leftist kooks”. </p>
<p>And why did I think you were a guy, I wonder?</p>
<p>That was “lefty” kooks. Let me know where you lost your train of thought, and I’ll try to help.</p>
<p>I don’t know, why?</p>
<p>Leftist, lefty</p>
<p>Tomatoes, Tomahtoes</p>
<p>“A Republican is found to be a crook (which has been known for a while) and all the Republicans are supposed to rush to the other part.”</p>
<p>And what’s so terrible about what he did anyway? Accepting stuff while he was still in office, rather than waiting to collect the big bucks the day after he retired? Ever wonder what Tom Daschle is doing today?</p>
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<p>ignore your intuitions, allmusic. This whole guy/girl thing is just a social construct.</p>
<p>rorosen: ROFL!</p>
<p>at last, marite, at long last,…</p>
<p>rorosen:</p>
<p>You only had to ask! :)</p>
<p>Well, I’m happy… I hope it is sign… the thought of Dems eventually taking back the house or senate makes me nauseous.</p>
<p>BTW, If the dems <em>had</em> taken the seat they and their media cohorts sure would have claimed it to be a sign.</p>
<p>Most Representative seats are in safe districts, either for Dems or GOPs. That’s gerrymandering for you. This was thought to be a safe GOP seat. Had Busby won it, it would have been the STORY of the election, hands down. They go at it again in November. </p>
<p>The GOP victor, Bilray (sp?), is considered to be more of a centrist than a conservative. So much so that some conservatives threatened to boycott the election and are still threatening to run someone as an independent in November. But Bilray was able to push the immigration issues hard and that appears to have brought out enough votes despite the general disilliousnment (sp?) with the Bush adminstation that Busby was counting on.</p>
<p>Back in 2004, the 50th District’s GOP candidate (then Cunningham) received 58% of the vote, and Busby 37%. Yesterday was <50% Bilbray, 45% Busby, an eight percent switch both ways. IF this happens in just a few districts nationwide, there will be a massive power shift in Washington.</p>
<p>Even a blind pig finds an acorn once in awhile. Maybe this will be your year. The media have been predicting/praying for this change since 2000.</p>
<p>The majority of the country is praying for the same, barrons, except you die-hards, out there in LaLa Land.</p>