I think it is funny that you believe that only the Democrats raised millions from outside donors.
'I've spoken of the Shining City all my political life. …In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.'" Ronald Reagan
Lots of #hottakes on the special election last night and this morning. I feel fairly confident about 99% of them are wrong.
You're underestimating the wrongness.
Interesting point to me is that this was Newt Gingrich's old District (or at least substantial parts of it), and it took $25 million for a Republican to hold onto it.
Dems learned nothing apparently from the November 2016 debacle. Same leadership, same results, same bleak looking future.
Let's get real here, this is Newt Gingrich territory. The fact that a Democrat could not win this heavily gerrymandered district tells us nothing.
'I've spoken of the Shining City all my political life. …In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.'" Ronald Reagan
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You're underestimating the wrongness.
Interesting point to me is that this was Newt Gingrich's old District (or at least substantial parts of it), and it took $25 million for a Republican to hold onto it.
Indeed!
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Moved to Montana, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.
Let's get real here, this is Newt Gingrich territory. The fact that a Democrat could not win this heavily gerrymandered district tells us nothing.