NY-11 Special Election Thread

[Pandaguineapig]

Staten Island Democrats continue to have their heads up their asses, refuse to take advantage of an issue that causes turnout to rise.

Jesus Christ, these people are incompetent.

Because doing their best to avoid any sort of controversial issue worked out so well in 2014...

Remember Staten Island approves of the Garner decision so running on that, even with the Sharpton mob, would be a losing strategy

[Pandaguineapig]

Staten Island Democrats continue to have their heads up their asses, refuse to take advantage of an issue that causes turnout to rise.

Jesus Christ, these people are incompetent.

Because doing their best to avoid any sort of controversial issue worked out so well in 2014...

Remember Staten Island approves of the Garner decision so running on that, even with the Sharpton mob, would be a losing strategy

At the same time, the only hope of Democrats winning is if minority turnout increases - which is very possible if the Democrats run on Garner.

Staten Island has an inferiority complex so doing that might cause white voters to vote for Donovan just to spite De Blasio and the rest of the city

[Pandaguineapig]

Staten Island Democrats continue to have their heads up their asses, refuse to take advantage of an issue that causes turnout to rise.

Jesus Christ, these people are incompetent.

Because doing their best to avoid any sort of controversial issue worked out so well in 2014...

Remember Staten Island approves of the Garner decision so running on that, even with the Sharpton mob, would be a losing strategy

At the same time, the only hope of Democrats winning is if minority turnout increases - which is very possible if the Democrats run on Garner.

Staten Island has an inferiority complex so doing that might cause white voters to vote for Donovan just to spite De Blasio and the rest of the city

I'm fully aware that it's a risk. However, this disgusting, incompetent piece of human garbage is clearly favored, and we aren't going to win by persuading white people to vote Cusick or McMahon or whoever they run.

Yeah Nominating him in the first place was stupid, they should have nominated Malliotakis but Giuliani and the police unions wanted Donovan for some god unknown reason

[Pandaguineapig]

In Staten Islander's mind, what is so bad about these democratic candidates that they would rather vote in criminals like Grimm? The democrats running here have had no crimes on their hands - and even if they did, Staten Islanders supported Cuomo the corrupt.

In the minds of Staten Islanders, "sending a message" that they're independent of NYC is more important than whether or not their Congressman is a criminal. Besides, we're starting to get to the point in politics where partisans would prefer a criminal of their own party over a non criminal of the other party. See FL-Gov 2010/2014. Though at least Dems seem to be better at this than Republicans, considering they dumped Bill Jefferson for a Republican even in a D+22 district.

Not Necessarily, Rangel, Jesse Jackson jr, and John Kitzhaber all got reelected without issue

[Pandaguineapig]

In Staten Islander's mind, what is so bad about these democratic candidates that they would rather vote in criminals like Grimm? The democrats running here have had no crimes on their hands - and even if they did, Staten Islanders supported Cuomo the corrupt.

In the minds of Staten Islanders, "sending a message" that they're independent of NYC is more important than whether or not their Congressman is a criminal. Besides, we're starting to get to the point in politics where partisans would prefer a criminal of their own party over a non criminal of the other party. See FL-Gov 2010/2014. Though at least Dems seem to be better at this than Republicans, considering they dumped Bill Jefferson for a Republican even in a D+22 district.

Not Necessarily, Rangel, Jesse Jackson jr, and John Kitzhaber all got reelected without issue

Didn't it seem like until fairly recently that it was just Kitzhaber's fiance that was the issue? I'm not sure, I didn't really read too much about that. As for the others, I agree. It's a shame that they did/do keep winning. At least this is Rangel's final term.

Yeah Kitzhaber wasn't the best example but something like Joseph Cao only happened because Hurricane Katrina displaced many voters warping the district's PVI, most people have gotten into this football team mentality of voting for your party's candidate no matter how certain their future in prison is