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

[David Green]

Correction; of course, Davis was challenged by Erika Harold in 2014, before
my very eyes.

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:50 AM, David Green <davidgreen50 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Very interesting; one caveat, FWIW, is that the district was redrawn after
> the 2010 census in order to obtain a possibility of a Dem victory (Tim
> Johnson had represented the 15th district, which obviously at that time
> included CU). The 2012 election taken from Gill was, ironically, the first
> with the new boundaries that were drawn intending to give a D a chance.
> It's also perhaps important to recall that upon Johnson's resignation,
> Davis was selected to be the nominee by Republican operatives based on his
> employment by, if I recall, John Shimkus; I don't believe he has ever faced
> any opposition from within the party.
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:06 AM, David Johnson via Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
>> 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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