[Peace-discuss] interesting historical fact about the 13th district

[David Johnson]

interesting historical fact about the 13th district

 

In the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections the district supported Bush over
Gore and then Kerry by a 55% to 45 % margin both times.

 

In 2008, the year of the highest historical turnout for the district, Obama
beat McCain by 54% to 46 %.

In 2012 , a year of a much lower voter turnout than 2008, Romney barely beat
Obama by less than 1 % of the vote

In 2016 , Trump beat Clinton by 6 % of the vote.

 

In 2012 Davis beat Gill by less than 1 % of the vote in a three way race
with a so called " progressive independent " who came out of know where to
run and agreed with every single position Gill supported and ended up with 7
% of the vote.

The DNC/DCCC gave Gill no get out the vote money or staff because Gill
refused to back away from his opposition to NAFTA and support for single
payer. Also Gill beat Durbin's boy in the Dem primary.

 

I still wonder who "persuaded " ( bribed ) the " progressive independent "
to run. He has since disappeared from all political activity. 

My speculation is that it was either the Koch brothers who threw a ton of
money that year behind Davis or it was the DNC.

I am inclined to think it was the Koch brothers but it could have very well
been the DNC based on their historic pattern of throwing considerable time
and resources against anti-corporate candidates in the Dem primaries, even
when the anti-corporate Dem primary candidate had a better chance of winning
against the republican in the general election. In essence the DNC would
rather lose to a republican then have an anti-corporate Dem candidate get
elected. Because for them ( DNC ) the maintaining and expansion of corporate
neo-liberalism and their cash flow from corporate donors is the prime
objective.

 

David J.

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