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

[Germaine Light]

Interesting!
Germaine

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:06 AM David Johnson <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>
wrote:

> interesting historical fact about the 13th district
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> In the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections the district supported Bush
> over Gore and then Kerry by a 55% to 45 % margin both times.
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> In 2008, the year of the highest historical turnout for the district,
> Obama beat McCain by 54% to 46 %.
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> In 2012 , a year of a much lower voter turnout than 2008, Romney barely
> beat Obama by less than 1 % of the vote
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> In 2016 , Trump beat Clinton by 6 % of the vote.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I still wonder who “persuaded “ ( bribed ) the “ progressive independent “
> to run. He has since disappeared from all political activity.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> David J.
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