NY-14: Goliath falls to OCASIO!

[JG]

My guess is Crowley still wins 65-35. Ocasio-Cortez would be an amazing congresswoman but I feel like her momentum is too little, too late.

And what's so amazing about her??? Besides gender and Hispanic name...

Because she’s a progressive actually willing to fix the fundamentals problems of our declining middle class and growing gap between rich and poor.

So, only progressives are allowed to serve as Democratic congressmembers? With such "ideological purity" forget about House majority then - there are simply not enough such districts. Besides - i was (and IS) never a fan of wild-eyed idealists...

When did he say that? Just because you have a fetish for dull machine hacks and partisan drones doesn't mean every person on the country is obliged to love them as well.

I never ask for somebody's "love" for "my" candidates - first. I am absolutely "anti-party" (at least - anti-present-parties as they are) - that's second. But if someone uses term "amazing" - i expect some more, then lleft-wing (in this case) loony...

NY-14 is a D+29 district. They can definitely afford to have an actually progressive rep. And what makes you think she's a loony?

[JG]

https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/17/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-unemployment


LMAO

I like her and hope she will do well as a congresswoman, but I certainly hope she'll try to get more informed on issues because that's kind of embarassing.

[JG]

This really was painful to watch. There is nothing with struggling to get up to speed when you're just catapulted into big responsibilites like these. However, I wish she would do her homework before going on national television and hurting her own ideas by fueling the false impression that they are unrealistic.

[JG]

I see the Moderate Hero Industrial Complex is out in full force again...

This is no time for muh policy wonkery and precise calculations of costs down to the decimals. That time comes after the election. This is the time to propose the bold solutions that this country needs, and AOC is doing just that. She doesn't have to have precise figure, that's not what voters want for her. Hillary proposed Detailed and Practical policies that amounted to a bandaid on a broken leg and see where it got her.

Except the problem is socialists hardly ever do that even AFTER winning. Mostly because a lot of them are gripey professional students who want a free bailout. So when they get into office, they just pull from the first place where more well off people have a little reserve or some revenue.

Right because the Reasonable Centrist policies like Obamacare were so well thought out they've started falling apart as soon as they started being implemented.

They would work better than medicare for all and Obamacare can still be fixed.

Which is why every country with Medicare for all has far better health outcomes AND spends less on it than the US.

I completly agree with this. I just wish that she would do her homeworks before bringing up numbers. If she doesn't have a good grasp of the number, she should just stick to the general idea instead of hurting it by making it looks completly unrealistic (which it isn't. At all.).