Your take on the elections ?

[JustAnotherGen]

21. Ahh - they didn't like Grimes in KY

Now she (see my earlier post) canvassed in KY - and made calls and specifically volunteered for black neighborhoods. . . She is caucasian.

The narrative/anecdote- she could get people excited about making life really hard for Rand Paul - i.e. a commitment to vote and keep the State House Democratic. And they did.

But she thinks a lot of people just simply didn't press a button for Grimes because of her backhanded slaps at Obama. And it wasn't JUST the 'who did she vote for' question - it was about actively running a campaign against Obama and being a hypocrite by bringing in his former Secretary of State.


Again - this is someone is an active GOTVer. Not an internet warrior.

She sent me this link. . .

http://www.kentucky.com/2014/11/05/3521136_full-state-wide-election-results.html?rh=1

It has all of the races with D's v R's from State House to Senate, Judges, US House, US Sen etc. etc. Right at the top:


U.S. Senate

Mitch McConnell, R 806,679

Alison Lundergan Grimes, D 584,622

David M. Patterson, L 44,230



For the State House - I arrived at 386,568 Democratic ticket votes

For the US House - I arrived at 508,092 Democratic ticket Votes

For the US House I arrived at 889,343 Republican and Independent (one district had about 2 K votes) ticket Votes.



The total number of US house Republican ticket votes exceed the total number of votes cast for Addison McConnell.

Enough left voters showed up to give Rand hell (he can't run for two offices at the same time in KY - their state doesn't allow it at this time) should he decide to run for President.

Enough showed up to cast votes for a Member of the US house that they wanted.

But they just didn't show up for the woman who ran - at the end of the day - from the black man.

That's just one race.

I was heavily on the ground in the NJ 7th - but we had Booker - and everyone loves Booker. I don't think the average nj conservative even knew Jeff Bell was on the ticket.

Here - I think having someone polite with national recognition is imperative so everyone in the rest of the country doesn't think we are all just like Christie. And Booker at no time ran against Obama - but he also didn't have a long history in the Senate - as he was only elected in a special election last year.



And you know who won big as a new candidate (granted she was running against the foaming at the mouth Teapartier)
NJ, District 12 - 100.00% reporting
Bonnie Watson Coleman 60.89% Democrat 86,699
Alieta Eck 36.57% Republican 53,875

Lookie lookie how Coleman won!

This one is better - look at the image behind 'pay equity' - it's directly asking blue collar voters to vote for her. It's not just women - it's about a fair and living wage. And the money shot at the end.

Now - this is Rush Holt's seat - but can we just look at numbers? Because the first BLACK CONGRESS WOMAN FROM NJ whooped her opponent by running DIRECTLY AT the President in extremely wealthy 74% caucasian community.

Distribution
93.17% urban, 6.83% rural
Ethnicity
75.4% White, 11.7% Black, 9.1% Asian, 5.5% Hispanic, 0.1% Native American, 0.2% other

You are asking this in the AA group so I wanted to give you a miss and a hit.


I think the next time around one doesn't have to be so radical - and one doesn't have to be a moderate who appeals to knuckle draggers who are never going to vote for you anyway.


Me - I'll get out and vote and canvass and give money to (I did give to this campaign and Cho's) anyone who states their focus with clarity. And in the 7th? Our candidate was adamantly against the Penn East Pipeline. No retreat - no surrender.

Janice lost HONEST.
Cho lost HONEST.
Coleman and Booker won HONEST.


Can the folks down in Kentucky say the same thing about Grimes?

Who IS she.

What are her CORE values.

And does she have one iota of respect for President Obama - because looking at her ads on YouTube - she kind of came off as a step down from Sister Sarah Alaskastan.

Where is the glory in that?