Could be a case of voter fraud. Could also be simple complacency whereby only the activist types bothered to show.
Especially with the low turnout. Fewer fraudulent votes needed to swing the election.
“Could be a case of voter fraud.”
I figure “they” have been tweaking their methods for cheating since 2016. Maybe this was a test of the big plan for November and 2020, and Crowley was their sacrificial lamb.
“Could be a case of voter fraud. Could also be simple complacency whereby only the activist types bothered to show.”
I doubt it was fraud, much more likely complacency. The Crowley character didn’t take her seriously (Rule #1 for ANY incumbent is to take your opponents seriously, particularly if it’s a very low turnout election).
But that’s not the problem for the Democrats, the problem is what happened after. THE MEDIA BLEW IT. They should put this story on Page 17, in two small paragraphs saying something like:
“...and in New York’s 15th District, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated incumbent Joe Crowley and will go on to face Art Schlemeck (or whoever the token Republican is) in November, a somewhat expected result in this highly Latino district.”
And BE DONE WITH IT, no interviews no more stories, nothing. Instead they literally made her the LEADER of the Democrats by putting her front-and-center, and now other Democrats, the BIG NAMES are forced to follow her, agreeing to kill off ICE, for starters.
It seems the media was just as unprepared for her as Crowley and now it’s too late to stuff the genie back in the bottle.