GOP 'reflecting' after losing Giffords seat

[pickel]

GOP 'reflecting' after losing Giffords seat - Times Union


Tea party Republican Jesse Kelly lost Tuesday's election by 6 percentage points.

Analysts say that's a significant margin considering that the district voted for Republicans the last two presidential elections and that Kelly very nearly unseated Giffords in the 2010 campaign.

Could this start a trend ???????

[tony_j15]

Not a trend item, IMO. This was a special election and Barber was replacing a person for whom there is strong emotional involvement. If he wins again in November, then we can start speculating.

[Theophylact]

If he wins again in November, then we can start speculating.

He has even better chances in November because the district lines have been redrawn, making it less Republican. (The change didn't apply to the special election.)

[Chuckiechan]

I Know the area, and I used to shop in that Safeway when on vacation. Her district is mostly retired public workers from California who sold California houses during the boom, and too their money and retirement checks with them.

The "native" population is illegal immigrants working for cash, Indians who don't work, and other assorted poor. Basically, a "mini California"...

I'm not a bit surprised a democrat won. The place is a rat hole except for the numerous "seniors only" trailer parks.

It's all about health care and public services down there, and includes a very "artsy fartsy" crowd due to the art programs at University of Arizona.

Excuse my spam, but I know of a nice '70's double wide for sale... ~ $ 19K... space rent ~ $ 400... It's in a park next to a police crime lab, so it's pretty secure...

Going to Florida instead... Parents are moving.

[MTAtech]

I Know the area, and I used to shop in that Safeway when on vacation. Her district is mostly retired public workers from California who sold California houses during the boom, and too their money and retirement checks with them.

The "native" population is illegal immigrants working for cash, Indians who don't work, and other assorted poor. Basically, a "mini California"...

But the article said that it's mostly a Republican district. Are you saying that Republicans there are "mostly retired public workers from California who sold California houses during the boom?" Call me skeptical.

I think that even Republicans have had it with the Tea Baggers, who jump off the cliff with all flags flying to stand on principle, just to smash on the rocks below.

[Chuckiechan]

The article is wrong. It may look like a republican demographic, due to income and "law and order", etc, but it is democrat to the core.

Example - my father in law is a hard core democrat, union guy, retired for 30 years, the works. Hates republicans.... Except he watches Fox, loves O Reilly and Hannity, and in conversations is actually more conservative than I am.

Don't poll retired senior citizens and expect to make sense out of it. Then add the "eaters" and you have a democrat district that can lean republican if voters are tired of the riff-raff...

Mini California...

[sharder8]

I brought this up a long time ago . . . My Dad was a staunch Democrat as well, true blue party man. Ideologically speaking though, he was pretty far right. When he was young, he registered Democrat, that was back when the Democrats were Conservative. When the Dem's went to the left and liberal, he just couldn't/wouldn't change his party affiliation.


Harder

[MTAtech]

I brought this up a long time ago . . . My Dad was a staunch Democrat as well, true blue party man. Ideologically speaking though, he was pretty far right. When he was young, he registered Democrat, that was back when the Democrats were Conservative. When the Dem's went to the left and liberal, he just couldn't/wouldn't change his party affiliation.


Harder

He must have been pretty old because the Democrats went left in the 1930s and now are about as left as Nixon was in the 1970s.

[sharder8]

Dad, Peter A. Harder, was born 1912 . . . Do the math. Dad was working in the potato fields, away from home, during The Great Depression. On the side, he worked as a carpenter.


Harder