How Democrats Suffered Crushing
Down-Ballot Losses Across America
New York Times,
by
Hari Narayana
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
11/28/2020 1:04:19 PM
WEXFORD, Pa. — Only a few seats shy of a majority within the State Home of Representatives, Democrats in Pennsylvania this 12 months zeroed in on Republican-held suburban districts, the place disdain for President Trump ran sizzling.
Considered one of their prime targets was within the North Hills suburbs exterior Pittsburgh, that are dwelling to large brick homes, wonderful public colleges and “the fastest-trending Democratic district within the state,” in line with Emily Skopov, the Democratic nominee for an open seat there, who gamely knocked on the doorways of Republican voters within the days earlier than Nov. 3. She was half proper.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
BarryNo 11/28/2020 1:08:13 PM (No. 618617)
1. Trump didn't lose.
2. They talk about "messaging" but what they mean is "lie through your teeth."
3. Its not over, yet.
28 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 11/28/2020 1:12:02 PM (No. 618619)
Kudos to OP for posting this from a site other than NYT. No paywall, no clicks to NYT. Bravo!
12 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
NeverForget 11/28/2020 1:17:44 PM (No. 618625)
Get a better translator.
16 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Nimby 11/28/2020 1:28:43 PM (No. 618636)
That’s because WH was their chosen target and they stuffed the ballots. Did have enough time to check the down ballot Ds
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jalo1951 11/28/2020 1:30:06 PM (No. 618640)
An unknown number of people sent in ballots with only biden chosen, really? Who would go to the point of voting for a presidential candidate only but not the down ballot contenders that would help him destroy America? You wouldn't. Fraud, you bet. I'm not interested in living in So. America or the old world Soviet Union. What the hell is happening and why do so many think it's not a problem?
18 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rama41 11/28/2020 1:33:19 PM (No. 618642)
For four years, the NYT has focused solely on beating Trump. When "Russia, Russia, Russia" failed, they sicced their resident racist reporter on the 1619 Project to (successfully) divide the country. Finally, Jim Rutenberg, their Media Reporter, asked Dean Baquet, the Exec News Editor, to put aside "traditional journalism" until the task was complete. Fake news? Don't blame the president. Blame the NYTimes itself. Why did the down ballot win? The Times didn't focus on that. Interesting to reread Bari Weis's resignation letter from the Times: https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter
6 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
wordsmith82 11/28/2020 1:48:45 PM (No. 618654)
Article written by someone who no speaka da English.
12 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
nosillod 11/28/2020 1:51:25 PM (No. 618656)
How can it be that those riding the coattails of the President get elected in what could easily be described as a Red wave yet he who's coattails they were riding doesn't get elected even though he had 10 million votes more than when he did get elected? There is only one logical answer...FRAUD. By the way, we aught to be checking out those Senate races for chicanery also. Especially in Michigan. None of this adds up. Unfortunately, crooked judges and lawmakers don't worry about math and logic. All they want is power. Keep going Mr. President, well over half of all Americans are behind you.
14 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 11/28/2020 1:54:47 PM (No. 618657)
Some of this article makes no sense: Two years in the past, its candidates flipped a internet of 5 Senate seats and 11 within the Home.
Maybe the NYT outsourced their editing to Bangladesh.
11 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Submariner 11/28/2020 1:57:54 PM (No. 618661)
It's fine with me that these tender white liberals delude themselves. The tide clearly has turned in the death match for the Presidency in 2020 in the courts (based on evidence) and state legislatures (based on evidence as political reinforcement) and these people unfortunately will suffer a repeat of the emotional reaction to 2016. British betting in now that Trump is the odds-on favorite to win by 11:1 this morning.
The gist of this article is that Joe won based on a loathing of PDJT (the reasons for which are not spelled out as usual), yet somehow voters in Districts who's assumed hatred for Trump ("sizzles") somehow failed to buy into to Biden's Party's platform.
A logical writer would have worked back from this down ballot Democrat disaster and factored the real evidence of ballot stuffing at the Presidential ticket level to come to a much more plausible conclusion that the Democrat party's message is a loser and their brand is severely damaged, with no remedy in sight.
8 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
vhs68 11/28/2020 1:59:21 PM (No. 618663)
This article looks like English language, but it's not American English.
What a struggle to read......and then comprehend.
11 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Digiconver 11/28/2020 2:12:16 PM (No. 618672)
Hari should sue his(her?) ESL instructor.
7 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 11/28/2020 3:00:03 PM (No. 618710)
Exactly #10 - but there was nary a mention of fraud as a possible cause. Nope - nothing to see there! Just legitimate voters who apparently aren't thinking clearly.
5 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
curious1 11/28/2020 4:40:42 PM (No. 618799)
#5, about those ObiteMe only marked ballots - it varies a bit from state to state and over time, but generally a couple thousand ballots per state are received with just one political race marked and the rest blank. This time there were, in some of the questionable states, over a hundred thousand only marked for one candidate - and that was ObiteMe. Clear example of the fraud the cheaters committed when President Trump's numbers swamped what they had thought they needed to deal with - caught them off-guard, thus the 'stopped counting' baloney the night of the election (when the cheaters sent the observers home) and the leftards continued 'counting' with no one watching them.
3 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
mamabear 11/28/2020 4:45:50 PM (No. 618804)
"...Democrats Suffered Crushing Down-Ballot Losses Across America" and yet the man at the top of the ticket "lost". Hmmmmmmm...
3 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
dst4life 11/28/2020 6:13:16 PM (No. 618846)
It's called cheating, Slimes!! Your corrupt machine did this. Morons!!
2 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
cThree 11/28/2020 10:22:45 PM (No. 618959)
It's hysterical that this copy was published in the NYTimes.
Ah, but I'm not woke enough. Mistake-free copy is racist, I'm sure.
3 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
judy 11/28/2020 10:37:56 PM (No. 618963)
How did Biden & Harris win when they did NOT win their primaries, could not get more than 10 people to their rallies, Clyburn tuned a Sanders win into a Biden win???? Wake up people!!!
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