Arizona Special Election TODAY (Freepers GO VOTE!)

New York Slimes ^ | 4/24/2018 | NY Slimes

[TexasGurl24]

Tuesday’s special election in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District, in the conservative suburbs outside Phoenix, may reveal the depth of Republicans’ political challenges in 2018. Debbie Lesko, the party’s nominee and a former state senator, is favored to win over Hiral Tipirneni, a Democrat and emergency room doctor, in a district that supported President Trump in 2016 by more than 20 points.

[TexasGurl24]

Freepers, the media has been playing the same game that they’ve been playing with all the specials. This has received virtually no coverage outside the far-left blogosphere. They are hoping that Conservatives won’t know about this and won’t vote while their base rushes to the polls and steals a seat so they can crow “blue wave.” Let’s stick this one in the media’s face.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

HSN just ran a puff-piece on the Democrat today. Of course they are presenting this as a referendum on Trump policies.

[TexasGurl24]

The media is openly colluding with the Rats. I also strongly suspect that Twitter and Facebook are using algorithms that ensure that only liberal Democrats get tailored notices about these special elections. Facebook and Twitter categorize users based on political ideology and it’s easy for them to tailor results so that conservatives don’t get notice of the elections while liberals do.

[hsmomx3]

I voted for Lesko. I read yesterday that the democrat will run in the next election should she lose today.

[TexasGurl24]

Thanks for standing the gap! If you know any conservatives who haven’t voted yet, push, pull, drag and beg them to go to the polls. We can beat the filthy media scum with grassroots effort.

[Jeff Vader]

voted this morning at 6.05am and was the 8th ballot cast. 2 people in front of me were union looking dudes casting provisional ballots

[originalbuckeye]

Our NBC news in PHX highlighted this race on the morning news. According to them, ‘if the Dem wins OR if it a close race but the Repub does win, it will be a disaster for the Republicans’. So, even if the Repub WINS, but it is CLOSE, it is a disaster for us. Sooooo fed up with the blatant bias, but hubby wants to know abou the traffic situation in the mornings, so we have NBC on.

[kaktuskid]

The Democrat was fired from her nursing job for malpractice..as in putting her patient in a wheelchair.

[Parley Baer]

I cannot vote in Arizona so I made a donation to the Lesko campaign.

[Eleutheria5]

Hope she runs ‘til she drops.

[dragnet2]

I hope it's not like CA, where in the past, many voters said, "Eff it" because common sense candidates who actually care about what the legitimate voters want, have been as rare as public pay phones in an Apple Store.

CA needs a Trump like candidate who'll rock the podium with hard truth regarding the current crop of lying leftist screw worms and their disciples of deceit in DSM.

John Cox needs to ramp it up and he better ramp up soon.

[dsc]

“voted this morning at 6.05am and was the 8th ballot cast. 2 people in front of me were union looking dudes casting provisional ballots”

Did you ask them how many times they are going to vote today?

[wiseprince]

It’s not in the news, guess that means this one is boy a referendum in Trump... Guess that means a Repukes win is in the cards and doesn’t fit the narrative

[hsmomx3]

I don’t know why people don’t vote when it is so easy in AZ. We always vote via mail-in ballot. Can’t get any better than that!!

[hsmomx3]

Me, too!

[Eleutheria5]

blue wave

[Dave W]

That is what this is - a referendum on Trump - perhaps more so than his policies. Every democrat will vote - they are energized as we have seen in other special elections - against the republican, who is the stand in for Trump.

As was the case when Obama was president, republicans were energized to vote against whomever the democrat was running for whatever office it was. Which is why the democrats lost over 1,000 elected offices during his 8 years in office. Now the shoe is on the other foot.

The good news is that this is a heavily republican district and based on the returned ballots so far, the vote is heavily republican. The only question is the margin of victory - hopefully, it is double digits. If it is single digits - not so good.

The democrats aren't really contesting this one too much, either.

[Dave W]

Gosh, the news was correct. That's just basic politics. This is a heavily republican district. Since it is a heavily republican district, it should be a big win. If it is a win for the pub, but close, then that is a signal that the republicans are weak going into the midterms. It also does several other things: it energizes the democrats even more. Democrat donors will begin donating more money and more often. For those potential candidates who are on the fence about running, a narrow repub win in a district that should be a landslide may persuade them to jump into their contest because they may then think they may be able to win their own race.

There are now about 40 open pub seats, which is alot of open seats. An open seat is easier for the opposition to win and by having a favorable electoral climate, the dems are able to attract better candidates, which gives them a better chance of winning.

So yes, a narrow republican win is not good in a district that should be a landslide win.

[originalbuckeye]

Looked it up. According to ABCNews, Phoenix, she left her ER job in 2007 after a malpractice judgement against her. Yet she promotes herself as an ER physician in her TV ads. The first time seeing this info about her.....it should have been front and center in Republican TV ads, for the last month.

[kaktuskid]

Special elections are a different animal than a general election - a lot of people don’t know there is an election today