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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: locogringo who wrote (165638)	3/12/2014 7:14:58 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (9) \| Respond to of 224718

Reality check: 48.4 percent of the vote in your favor in an extremely low-turnout election is not a referendum. It's a one-off in which the party with the bigger base is likely to prevail, which is what happened with this seat. Because Republicans didn't win this seat, they held it, barely. A 48.4 margin is a full 15 points less than the late Bill Young held this seat by in 2010, and almost 10 points less than he held it by in 2012. Still, Republicans turned out, Democrats didn't.