NY-14: Goliath falls to OCASIO!

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

I've always found it interesting how machine politics tends to be very big in minority districts like NY-14 and IL-03, even when the machine's politicians usually (though not always) are white.

Anybody know why this is?

Districts often changed around the machines (sometimes around the specific incumbents). Ed Burke was elected as Alderman of Chicago's 14th Ward when it was mostly an Irish Catholic area and has simply stayed in power as the neighborhoods changed. The strategies to maintaining power aren't much different, though it does create some vulnerabilities that weren't present before; Burke's brother lost his (heavily Latino) State House seat this year to a 26-year-old CPS counselor and soccer coach, Aarón Ortíz, who successfully painted Burke as oit of touch with the majority of the district's residents. Ocasio-Cortez is attempting to exploit the same opening.

OTOH, one of Ocasio-Cortez’s problems is that she didn’t catch Crowley asleep at the wheel.  Say what you will about Crowley and his campaign, but he didn’t take this primary for granted.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

GO CROWLEY!

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

GO CROWLEY OCASIO-CORTEZ!

I at least commend you for not deleting my post because you disagreed with it. A lot of people would do that here if they had mod power.

[Suburbia]

I think Rep. Crowley wins renomination tonight.

He wants to be House Speaker when Pelosi retires/resigns/forced out

He's a white ethnic City Democrat...he could be formidable in future House Leadership.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Justice dems are walking into the bar thinking that they are the hot cr@p. Let's show them up tonight just like we have been doing.

Say no to DeVito, Cortez, Beals, Pat Nelson, Ian Golden, Manno, Manning, Rao, (Spaulding is ok), (Jealous is ok, but Baker is better), and other justice dems.

Can't wait to follow these races and see many of them lose their primaries.

[Bidenworth2020]

All the mailers that Crowley has sent out to Ocasio-Cortez’s address, lol.

Makes sense. Though that is a lot of primary mail.

Primaries in safe seats like this are effectively the general election, so it makes sense to burn most of  your cash now. I'm currently working for some campaigns in Montgomery county MD, this is basically what they are doing as well.

ooh what campaign?

[Zaybay]

This race will be decided in the hundreds, since only maybe 6 to 9 thousand people will vote in the primary. NY primaries have abysmal turnout, so if OC can get a bit higher, she could take the seat, otherwise, Crowley has his machine to get him to the finish line.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Joe Crowley and Yvette Clarke are awesome, and they deserve reelection, Maloney is pretty good too, but I like her opponent, but incumbency rocks so go Maloney!

[Oryxslayer]

All the mailers that Crowley has sent out to Ocasio-Cortez’s address, lol.

Makes sense. Though that is a lot of primary mail.

Primaries in safe seats like this are effectively the general election, so it makes sense to burn most of  your cash now. I'm currently working for some campaigns in Montgomery county MD, this is basically what they are doing as well.

ooh what campaign?

I'm interning for the young dems, so they have had me out at a variety of delegate and countywide offices for candidates they endorsed during these primary weeks. Mostly I have been handling the back-end online data stuff. Today however I was out at a precinct handing out fliers. I will be at the WDC Unity Party on Thursday as well.

[Bidenworth2020]

Joe Crowley and Yvette Clarke are awesome, and they deserve reelection, Maloney is pretty good too, but I like her opponent, but incumbency rocks so go Maloney!

no offense man, but that is pretty hackish lol

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

And go David Trone as well! He is good friend of incumbent John Delaney.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Joe Crowley and Yvette Clarke are awesome, and they deserve reelection, Maloney is pretty good too, but I like her opponent, but incumbency rocks so go Maloney!

no offense man, but that is pretty hackish lol

So who you end up picking for governor?

[Antonio the Sixth]

incumbency rocks

You strange, strange person.

[Ronnie]

I hope all the feckless, weak liberals like Joe Crowley go down in flames tonight.  It's time to throw out the good-for-nothing old guard.

[Rookie Yinzer]

I hope all the feckless, weak liberals like Joe Crowley go down in flames tonight.  It's time to throw out the good-for-nothing old guard.

[CookieDamage]

I hope all the feckless, weak liberals like Joe Crowley go down in flames tonight.  It's time to throw out the good-for-nothing old guard.

[junior chįmp]

I hope all the feckless, weak liberals like Joe Crowley go down in flames tonight.  It's time to throw out the good-for-nothing old guard.

Throw them out!

[Rhenna]

My wig is gone. I didn't actually think AOC would perform this well, same for Clarke's opponent and Patel.

[IndustrialJustice]

Congrats to the Machine Democrats in New York for engineering a regressive voting system that blew up in their faces at the first activist-friendly atmosphere.

[Rhenna]

Justice dems are walking into the bar thinking that they are the hot cr@p. Let's show them up tonight just like we have been doing.

This aged well.

[OneJ]

Justice dems are walking into the bar thinking that they are the hot cr@p. Let's show them up tonight just like we have been doing.

This aged well.

LOL. To be fair, no one saw this coming.

[Rhenna]

Justice dems are walking into the bar thinking that they are the hot cr@p. Let's show them up tonight just like we have been doing.

This aged well.

LOL. To be fair, no one saw this coming.

I thought Ocasio-Cortez would win, but not by this much.

[IndustrialJustice]

“We beat a machine with a movement.” - @Ocasio2018

[Free Bird]

This is amazing

[Rookie Yinzer]

I'm shaking. Congratulations Congresswoman!