Regardless if you are a Democrat, or Republican, you have to be amazed at the special election yesterday held in New York's 26 Congressional District. Democrats argue that it was a victory for medicare, and the Republicans say it was the "scare tactics" used by the Democrats. Whatever the case may be, let us look at the facts. Christopher Lee (R) won 74% of the vote over Philip Fedele (D) just six months ago. In Tuesdays election, Kathy Hochul (D) won 47% of the vote over Jane Corwin (R) who took 43%. How is it possible for that big of swing in just six months? There are many different ideas floating around, but the way I see it, people have had enough. Jane Corwin had said she would vote yes on Paul Ryan's Budget Plan that would kill Medicare. Once that relationship was made, her standings in the polls started to diminish, and even as she tried to distance herself from the proposal, her defeat was imminent. If you look at the history of New York 26, Hochul is only the sixth Democrat to win that seat, compared to the 23 Republicans who have held it, since 1853. To say it was a Red District would not do it justice. In closing, I will leave it with this. You can form whatever conclussions you care to on the "why it happened", but do you really have to ask? If you cannot see that the answer is infront of you, then maybe the rapture did occur, and instead of taking everyone's soul, it took your common sense.
Sources of Information
http://www.politicsdaily.com/tag/Chris%20Lee/
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412291
http://newyork.onpolitix.com/pages/247/u.s.-house-district-26-special-election-results
You know, one thing that really worries me about today's politics, and indeed this may not be very new at all, Is that there seems to be swinging back and forth regarding the general public's loyalty. Never before have I seen the voting public feel so at sea regarding who they will vote for him why. Sometimes I'm not even entirely sure somebody knows why they're voting for that person, other than that person Mesa ports one particular issue that the voter may be interested in. I think in general that we have a lack of educated voters in this country, and a lack of education about the process, the topics, and also the actual possibilities of what we can accomplish. I mean I think sometimes we voting Democrat because we think the Democrats are going to do . . . but if they don't do it fast enough then we turn around and we just go ahead and vote for Republican who promises us the same thing. But then again, the Republican doesn't get it done. So for me it feels a bit like a swinging door. Would Do you think?
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