Why Mike Ferguson Is Going To Win

by: huntsu

Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 06:41:50 AM EDT

You know, I've been getting more and more encouraged by the Linda Stender campaign against Mike Ferguson for the 7th District Congressional seat over the past month. Stender's put out some more aggressive mail pieces and a better TV ad campaign, and she's raised a ton of money.

Add in the independent poll putting the race at two points, and I almost got positive about this race.

But then State Senator Joe Kyrillos went on Gabe Pressman's show this weekend and totally deflated my balloon. He has convinced me that the people of the 7th District would never vote against Mike Ferguson for one very simple reason:

And they're going to return him [Ferguson to the Congress]. They are scared that Charlie Rangel--who just sat in this chair--might be the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. That's what really scares the people of Mike Ferguson's district.

In all seriousness, if that's the best they can do then they are in serious shit.

huntsu :: Why Mike Ferguson Is Going To Win

You can't walk this district for a week and find a dozen people who know who Charlie Rangel is, much less what committee he is in line for. Hell, I'm pretty sure most of them don't know what the Ways and Means committee does.

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Why Mike Ferguson Is Going To Win | 4 comments

Standard Republican fare (0.00 / 0)

Coded racism has been a staple in republican campaigns for a long while. I've heard that reference to Rangel more than once, sometimes with an extra bonus: "Do you really want people like Charlie Rangel and Barney Frank to control the Congress - because that's what you'll get if the Democrats take over." You couldn't mean blacks and gays, could you?

by: Jeff Gardner @ Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 11:20:09 AM UTC

Hahahaha! I think Ferguson will win because (0.00 / 0)

there's no way people want the color of his office in Washington to be changed. They simply won't stand for that. Do they disagree with every position he holds? Of course. But that's not the issue that drives them. The office color. That's a deal breaker.

by: Sidd Finch @ Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 13:24:06 PM UTC

if mike wins (0.00 / 0)

and that's an "if", it will be, because, it will be too close and the fix is on. Electronic voting sucks. Even wealthy Somerset County has had enough of Mike's rubber stamping Bush policy. Somerset County is one of the wealthiest counties in the nation, and of course, they don't want to loose their tax cuts. The influx of immigrants from urban areas, has equalized the votes, but when it comes to lying and cheating, the republicans have that down to a art form.

by: ahigherpower @ Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 14:57:15 PM UTC