GOP's Darrell Issa concedes his district on Fox News before polls open: 'We know the results already
Source: RawStory
MARTIN CIZMAR
06 NOV 2018 AT 10:12 ET
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is retiring from his district in suburban San Diego after 18 years. The district, which Hillary Clinton won handily in the 2016 election, is now the subject of a fight between Republican Diane Harkey and Democrat Mike Levin.
But on Tuesday, Issa went on Fox News and conceded that the Democrat would win even before the polls opened. This despite the fact that his would-be Republican successor was still trying to rally voters.
Quite frankly, we know the results already, there will be a Democrat representing La Jolla and Solana Beach for the first time in a number of years, he said. For now, California is leaning very hard to the left.
Issa thinks that his seat will be the only one to go, despite the fact that the state has seven Republican-held seats in districts Clinton won.
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knightmaar
(748 posts)No, it's standing back up straight after having fallen into the craziness.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)gerrymandering is basically over in California and so you're seeing appropriate levels of representation from there.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)In 2012 it became much more blue.
And if we can get rid of gerrymandering, this will happen in all sorts of states, including Texas.
NOMOGOP
(87 posts)and felon voting rights passes the Republikkkans can kiss Florida good bye.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)I bring up that most blue states have non partisan means of drawing up congressional districts. Many red states have the partisan method of doing it via the heavily red state legislature.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)I've pointed out before, that the democrats tended to amplify their majority using redistricting. Roughly speaking, they ensured that the GOP was spread out very evenly. They could do this because the democrats had the majority so they could spread out the minority. I'm not defending it really, but what resulted was that the party that controlled the state, did so because they had majority support. The GOP on the other hand tends to concentrate the democrats into a single, or a few, districts, and then spread the rest out as a minority in the rest of the state. The result is that they are able to maintain control, with minority support. The minority controlling government is a very dangerous condition, especially when sustained. It can lead to fascism.
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)We need our states to Gerrymander the ever living fuck out of their own districts.
Only when we start gerrymandering will the con's get off their ass and get the practice of it outlawed.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)This is an attempt to get Democrats to not vote because he wants you to believe its over.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Is that I mailed.my ballot in last week.
No lines.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Seems like the GOP has given up here.
I'm only seeing pro-Levin television commercials.
It's been like that for a few weeks now.
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)in Congress are finally, finally over.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)durablend
(7,465 posts)Carjacking!
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)I remember that sad, wretched day we found out we'd been drawn into Issa's district. It took six years to get the supposedly undefeatable Issa out, turn this district blue, and the work of many, many irrepressible, crative Democrats.
What a wonderful day. Next up we all have to work on turning that Republican bastion, San Diego County Board of Supervisors, blue.
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)Not only was the redistricting brutal but to hear Applegate won election night 2016 then Issa declared the winner was almost unbearable. This is the last section of the County that would ever turn blue. What a good job we've done, Neighbor!
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)Could not be happening without Applegate's campaign in 2016.
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)Juneboarder
(1,732 posts)May the door hit your sorry ass on the way out! xoxo
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)wolfie001
(2,279 posts)ET Awful
(24,753 posts)n/t
2naSalit
(86,843 posts)Grey was a good civil servant.
Judi Lynn
(160,649 posts)dembotoz
(16,864 posts)vote then celebrate
sandensea
(21,688 posts)And, I might add, a small miracle.
I lived in that district for about a decade from the late '90s to the late aughts, and to admit you were a Democrat was tantamount to having a target on your back.
Then the Bush debacle struck. Most lost hundreds of thousands overnight; some of course lost everything.
As awful as it was, people live and learn (sometimes). And besides: under Obama home prices recovered, and are now at their 2005-06 highs again.
Good to see South Orange County have a chance at a real Representative again.
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)moving here a little over 20 years ago. It was a stunner. I remember being a poll worker Election Day 2004, Dem voters were whooping it up relieved to come out. I mean people who didn't know each other hugging it out. In spite of the results it was a beautiful day because of that.
sandensea
(21,688 posts)I can't say I was ever that exuberant; but it felt nice to add your vote to the right candidate - even if that candidate had no chance.
In some precincts, the church ladies seemed "trained" to spot Democrats.
You'd come in, they'd see you were white and would give you a grandmotherly smile. But the second they saw that twinkle in one's eye and smelled the patchouli, so help me they knew you weren't one of them.
The treatment would then vary from scowls to ocassionally some silly attempt at putting you down.
Once, an older Greek man gave me the signature log upside down. I turned it around, saying "pardon me, it was upside down."
"Well," he chuckled in a heavy accent. "You are Democrat, no? You always vote upside down!"
Oh, well.
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)Glad to have come in on the tail-end of it. Hopefully you've moved to a more tolerant area.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)I was in a parade in Issa's very wealthy district -- went there with a friend and his classic car to be in the parade. To my total surprise, along the parade route were anti-Issa signs. And...the signs were being held by people who looked like stereotypical Republicans -- older, conservatively dressed and white! I was pleasantly surprised and each time I saw someone with an anti-Issa sign, I threw huge handfuls of candy toward them!
Recursion
(56,582 posts)I'm still pissed at that asshole.
3catwoman3
(24,072 posts)...story here.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)He have an overheated caninevthat was very amorous, and how did Issa take it from him?
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Lo, even these many years later I feel the pang.
3catwoman3
(24,072 posts)...that he stared blankly right thru you? Fits right in with his superior being demeanor.
aggiesal
(8,938 posts)Perfect name for this ASS!
33taw
(2,448 posts)3catwoman3
(24,072 posts)...would be if Issa were running and got defeated.
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)If you are in darrell issa's district. This seems like a last ditch effort to suppress voter turnout.
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)We remember him hiding on top of his roof last year refusing to talk to us, the coward.
rainbowsnunicorns
(9 posts)California has been left-leaning for years. With today's political climate, this doesn't surprise me at all.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)other news channels and run for cover at fake news (Murdoch).
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)getting that feeling I may be in sugar comma by this time tomorrow!
chowder66
(9,087 posts)BadGimp
(4,021 posts)This guy... oh man what an assclown.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Blah, blah, blah...
BigmanPigman
(51,642 posts)As Rachel said last night, they stood outside his local office every single week, in all kinds of weather, for 50 straight weeks! I guess the super wealthy people who live in La Jolla will finally see blue! Now let's see what the people in Hunter's district do...there are rural and military voters in this group.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)What a crummy, crummy person. That just isn't done.
BigmanPigman
(51,642 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Wonder if he kicks kittens. For real.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,156 posts)Idiot.
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)He wants you to stay home thinking your vote is not need. Instead, vote in force.
pecosbob
(7,545 posts)Never want to see or hear of you again...
Retrograde
(10,164 posts)He saw how things went in 2016, when he barely squeaked into re-election, and he knows his constituents are angry. Like a lot of Repubs who decided to retire this year, he can't take the heat or a defeat.
oldlibdem
(330 posts)I hope my repuke cousin in San Diego fukin' strokes out!
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Snellius
(6,881 posts)Hate to see him go and look forward to someone cleaning up his mess.