'Blue Wave' put on hold as Republican wins AZ special election

American Thinker ^ | 04/25/2018 | Rick Moran

[SeekAndFind]

Democrats' path to take over the House in November took a sharp right turn last night as a Republican won a special congressional election in Arizona's 8th Congressional District.

Debbie Lesko, a former state senator, bested Democrat Hiral Tipirneni, a physician, by about 10,000 votes.  Donald Trump won Arizona by 21 points in 2016.

Lesko will serve out the term of Rep. Trent Franks, who resigned in disgrace.

CNN:

Lesko will fill the seat through the end of this congressional term in January and must run for re-election in November to continue serving.

Even though Republicans avoided another stinging loss in a special election after losing a US Senate race in December in Alabama and Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District in March, the party's top operatives in Arizona and across the country worried that the narrow margin was a signal of losses to come.

"This was not supposed to be this close," the senior Republican said as representatives from the Lesko campaign touted the win for their candidate.  "We really can't blame anything.  We got killed among independents.  It shouldn't have been this close." ...

Democrats didn't think they would win the race.  Arizona's 8th Congressional District has all the hallmarks of a place Republicans should easily win and there are around 78,000 more registered Republicans than Democrats in the area.

But in a year where Democrats, buoyed by anti-Trump fervor, have consistently overperformed their Republican counterparts, the party will look at the loss as a sign that a blue wave is about to crash on Republicans in the general election later this year.

First of all, if there is going to be a "Blue Wave" in November, this is exactly the kind of race Democrats should have won to prove it.

[Lurkinanloomin]

There was never any blue wave.
The Ministry of Propaganda wants to wish it into existence by propaganda.

[SMGFan]

http://thefederalist.com/2018/04/18/new-polls-undermine-forecast-blue-wave-midterms/

[treetopsandroofs]

“There was never any blue wave.
The Ministry of Propaganda wants to wish it into existence by propaganda.”

They worked pretty hard on this thread this morning:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3650176/posts

[Magnum44]

The Ministry of Propaganda wants to wish it (the blue wave) into existence by propaganda

And Hillary still wants to win the election...

[Bryanw92]

>>The Ministry of Propaganda wants to wish it into existence by propaganda.

That’s how elections work. Don’t underestimate the power of propaganda in a public school educated country that has accepted existentialist non-value systems.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The left has been extremely successful.
Taking over education was the key.
The Ministry of Propaganda would not be as effective with people who can think for themselves.

[Bryanw92]

>>The Ministry of Propaganda would not be as effective with people who can think for themselves.

Woulda, shoulda, coulda. It is our hard reality now. The weltanschauung is firmly set in the minds of the youth and the current productive generation. Trump’s narrow win was only due to his ability to persuade them to think outside the worldview for a short time. It was the political version of the aftermath of 9/11 where everyone got out of their worldview to be Americans for a short time.

[fwdude]

Have the “additional boxes” of newly found ballots turned up yet?

[Eleutheria5]

"the party's top operatives in Arizona and across the country worried that the narrow margin was a signal of losses to come." Reagan 80 on another thread:

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100% of precincts reporting:

R 91,390 Votes (Leading by 9,072)

D 82,318 Votes

NARROW?! 10% is now narrow?!

[Eleutheria5]

Curse you, html code!

[confederatecarpetbag]

There will be a Black and Blue wave in November. That’s how Dems will feel afterwards IMO. Never underestimate the Trump factor - he has reset the calibration for U.S. elections. The traditional “the party in power always loses power” nosegay is outmoded in the era of Trump. I believe his coattails remain strong and will pull GOP candidates over the line in close races, especially those who vocally side with his agenda. This is also why some of the GOP incumbents needs to be primaried out.

[Amish with an attitude]

The so called “Blue Wave” is nothing more than a media contrivance.

[Oatka]

I suspect the “Blue Wave” will turn out to be “Ebb Tide”, just like all those Hillary-will-win predictions.

[Republican Wildcat]

This seat was fully contested by the Democrats - they don’t normally do that in this district. And the Republicans actually put up a decent candidate with expectation that it would be contested (unlike in the Pennsylvania race). So yes, the Democrats did “better” than usual, but still lost. You go to the most Republican districts in the country and if the Democrats want to put in several million dollars in a single district they don’t normally put a dime in, the results would indeed be closer than usual.

[taxcontrol]

I envision waves on an out going tide.

[Grampa Dave]

There was never any blue wave, besides the one shown below!

The Ministry of Propaganda wants to wish it into existence by propaganda.

Democrats’ so called “assured” Blue wave, 2018 Election Dreams Could End Up as a Blue Wave Nightmare! If they were on track to beat us, the DNC would not be borrowing money!

Dem’s 2018/20 Blue Wave shown below:

Thanks to Navy Patriot and ObozoMustGo2012 for the above!