He’s having trouble getting the right-leaning billboard companies to take his money and put up the signs. Sinclair owns quite a few etc…
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Primary election
® Darrell Issa (incumbent) - 84,626 (50.8 %)
(D) Doug Applegate - 75,806 (45.5 %)
(I) Ryan Glenn Wingo - 6,087 (3.7 %)
Total votes - 166,521
General election
®Darrell Issa (incumbent) - 155,888 (50.3 %)
(D) Doug Applegate - 154,267 (49.7 %)
Total votes - 310,155
He won by 1,600 votes…in California. If Dems don’t pick up this seat, IDK what we’re doing wrong. But to be fair, this is a more conservative area of CA. Issa won with 63%, 58%, and 60% in 2010, 2012, and 2014 respectively. So maybe Applegate was just strong, or maybe there was a lot of anti-Trump sentiment, or maybe people are finally sick of Issa’s hypocritical bullshit. But you also have to consider that Issa has been in congress a long time with a huge amount of money fundraised, he was incumbent, and his personal fortune is > $400 million.
This should immediately go in the toss-up category for 2018.
(As to your primary question, I’d say not likely helpful to GOP).
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Bye, Darrell. Don’t let the door hit ya and all that.
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Good riddance!
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Holy crap. I hadn’t realized that Issa just barely squeaked by in 2016. 50.3 to 49.7.
https://ballotpedia.org/California's_49th_Congressional_District_election,_2016
And Hillary won it by seven points.
WTF is wrong with those people? How is that even possible?
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I expected this guy to run off but I’m kinda disappointed I didn’t get to see his face as he watched the vote totals in the California 49th
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Well hot damn!
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Exactly my first thought
Fuckers don’t want a level playing field because they know they’ll lose
What Darrell your Republican policies are unpopular . Imagine that
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A HUGE GOTV effort by Democrats will help counter low turnout.
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Eh, I don’t think it’s cowardice so much as a recognition of the political reality that there’s a blue tsunami coming. Like so many others, he’s getting out while the gettin’s good.
Fun fact: While dozens of Republicans are retiring, not one Democrat has announced retirement. That says a lot about where this is going.
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Headline in a better world:
Rep. Darrell Issa Announces Incarceration
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One down, two (Rohrabacher, Nunes) to go.
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Right you are, plucky. I may be fuzzy on details but I don’t recall Dems jumping ship at this rate in 2010 when the Koch/ALEC fueled TeaTools were rising as the result of the Dems supporting the ACA.
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Seriously. If they can do everything they can to protect their crime family, the least they can do is face the music when the public wises up.
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Hey!!! That’s my brandmark!!
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Issa was just a petty thief, in the final analysis - apparent conspirators to aid a foreign power will be even sweeter takedown.
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Just read his wiki. Jeez.
Hot car market must be on the upswing right?
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I was trying not to get too optimistic about November, but I’m becoming a believer in the great Blue Wave! It’s really a thing!
Buh bye, Issa. Won’t miss ya.
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