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In reply to the discussion: New Report Ryan and Mcconnell took millions from Russian oligarch tied to Putin [View all]stuffmatters
(2,580 posts)As far as Congress 2016 theft I've been pretty suspicious since Nov of how Doug Applegate "lost" to Darrell Issa by just 1500 votes that came at the end from Orange County. San Diego, which is a pretty bipartisan, Democratic leaning County, went large for Applegate. How did the smaller portion of this district that's in OC out weight Applegate's lead coming out of San Diego County?
Especially since the vote from this whole district went Hillary. Issa is not a liked politician in his district; hard to imagine anyone who voted for Hillary voting for Issa. Especially after Applegate's brilliant ad alerted everybody that Issa voted against
the 911 First Responders.
Issa's final desperate flood of character assassination ads on Applegate's past, messy divorce also was nothing like what we've seen before in political ads in this district. Kind of reeked of this new Repug Russian collaborative Op Research
and was definitely cyber targeted (Cambridge) to The Fundies of OC market. (Funny, The OC is probably the messy divorce capital of the USA, so doubt those old divorce records they dug up had much impact on other OC voters)