iwannabeacowboy said:
She only drew 10 people... 10. The latino running as a Republican is going to crush her when the electronic voting machines can't be altered in November.
Now... Posts are getting wacky?... make a direct statement Pumpkin. Your generalization is lazy at best and most likely because you can't or don't know how to defend what it is that you think you believe. Jump when you get to feeling froggy... I'm bored.
You can wish for that all you want to, but it's very, very unlikely. Granted, that district is almost 50% Hispanic, but that hasn't seemed to make much difference in the past. Keep in mind that it hasn't even been a month since their top-two primary between five candidates in that district, and she received over 71% of the vote while Navarro received just over 14%. That is close to the same results as when they faced each other in 2016, so it is something of a trend.
If you're generous and say that he'll get all of the votes from the other three candidates that were in the primary, and even if some of her voters switch over, she still wins easily. Even if some more Hispanics that didn't vote in the primary decided to turn out for him in the general election, I doubt if it would be enough to do it. Her campaign can easily link him to Trump, and there has never been more animosity among Hispanics toward a President than I see directed toward Trump.
You can continue to hope that Navarro will win, but it will take a huge amount of legwork on the ground for him to pull it off and beat the machine that she's already got in place to turn out warm bodies to vote. It's so unlikely for him to be able to overcome that machine that it's almost going to be impossible. Stranger things have happened, I suppose, but in all likelihood, she sails to another easy win.
And I'm not so sure that's a bad thing. That district will likely never be solidly in Republican hands, but Maxine Waters is a solid campaigner for Republicans these days. I'd much rather have her stay in Congress running her mouth and being heard by the former Democrat union guys in the Midwest. A lot of those former-solid Dem voters have to wonder why they were in lockstep with that party for so long.
And as you alluded to in another post, even some Blacks are beginning to see the light. Now that more and more of them are starting to leave the Democrat plantation, I can't see a lot of them being on board with some of that radical talk, either. It's going to be an interesting few months and an interesting mid-term election cycle, that's for sure.