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发帖数: 29846 | 1 May 22, 2014 by Warner Todd Huston
A Clinton extended family member, Marjorie Margolies–the mother of Chelsea
Clinton’s husband–was running for Congress in a safe Democrat district in
Pennsylvania. Everyone expected her to just waltz into Congress but
shockingly she got crushed by a lesser known primary challenger.
Margolies had a lot of things going for her, all of which seemed to assure
that she was a shoo in. She was once a Congresswoman, she is Chelsea Clinton
’s mother-in-law and she had both Bill and Hillary fly in to her district
and campaign for her. She is also a “she,” and was being challenged in the
Democrat primary by a white man. That alone would have seemed to put her
over the edge, war on women wise.
But it was the Clinton connection that everyone thought would be the number
one winning point. Bill and Hillary held campaign fundraisers for Margolies
and Bill sent out a robo call on her behalf.
Back during her single term in Congress in 1993, Margolies was a “yes”
vote for Clinton’s tax increases, something that Bill celebrated on the
robo call saying her vote “reversed trickle-down economics and set the
country on the longest peacetime expansion in history–one that all
Americans participated in.”
This district is solidly Democrat so it isn’t likely that the Republican
challenger, Dee Adcock, can grab this open seat.
Margolies was faced with a young, 37-year-old state legislator named Brendan
Boyle.
As my friend John Fund reports:
Boyle won because he used his shoe leather and union organizers to make
up for Margolies’ advantage in TV advertising. He also blunted her attacks
on his pro-life voting record in the legislature. “National pro-choice
groups like NARAL and EMILY’s List have no problem declaring their
opposition to Brendan Boyle’s anti-choice record,” Margolies said. But
Boyle explained his votes to toughen regulations on abortion clinics in the
wake of the Gosnell late-term abortion scandal were appropriate, and
insisted he had “evolved” into supporting Roe v. Wade. Margolies also
questioned Boyle’s commitment to public education, noting that pro-charter-
school and pro-voucher groups had contributed to his prior campaigns. The
attacks bounced off Boyle.
Could the bloom be fully off the Clinton rose?
We may see if Hillary announces for president but this should serve as a
warning to her that she cannot expect it all to be a cakewalk. | T*********I
发帖数: 10729 | 2 老百姓老觉得柯林顿和股票高经济好有关。好像把民主党选过来就会股票高经济好。
有个锤子的关系。
国债倒是借了一大把，美元也一步步破产。 | p**j
发帖数: 7063 | 3 主要是中国人这样以为吧？因为根本就没在美国呆多久，没见过几个总统。
【在 T*********I 的大作中提到】
: 老百姓老觉得柯林顿和股票高经济好有关。好像把民主党选过来就会股票高经济好。
: 有个锤子的关系。
: 国债倒是借了一大把，美元也一步步破产。
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