By: TexJudge

TexJudge — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:56:19 +0000

While I enjoyed the article, I believe the data does not support its premise, ie, that Republicans can win statewide in the Northeast. First, Dewey was elected over 60 years ago, and Giuliani was elected due to 9/11, and Weld and Whitman were elected almost 20 years ago. The 2 most recently elected, Hogan and Baker, won by extremely narrow margins over flawed Democratic candidates. Furthermore, not one of these persons would be considered even moderately conservative and would be considered Democrats in any other part of the country. I do not believe a conservative Republican could be elected to any major office in New England (except, perhaps, New Hampshire in an off-year election), New York, New Jersey, Maryland or Delaware. I honestly believe that any Republican currently considered a possible presidential candidate in 2016 will lose every one of these states, having about as much chance of winning there as either Hillary Clinton or Elizabeth Warren have of winning my home state of Texas.
By the way, in my opinion the real reason behind Obama’s amnesty for illegals is to add millions of voters for the Dems in 2016. Even though the law in every state bars noncitizens from voting, when these illegals go to get drivers licenses or apply for welfare the unionized clerk will hand them a “motor voter” registration form which does not state that you must be a citizen to vote. The only way to stop noncitizens from voting is voter ID and we know how the racially-biased Holder Justice Dept (see,eg, no prosecution of videotaped New Black Panther voter intimidation in 2008) is trying to block voter ID laws. There are at least 1 million noncitizens voting in California and nothing is done about it.

Comments on: How Republicans win in the Northeast

By: TexJudge