Iraq Issue Is an Also-Ran in Race to Replace Cunningham (CA-50)

[brooklynite]

SAN DIEGO — You might think the 50th Congressional District, with a military base at one end and a university at the other, would be ripe for a debate about the war in Iraq as voters choose a successor to the imprisoned Randy "Duke" Cunningham.

Democrat Francine Busby, 55, a Cardiff school board member and women's studies lecturer, is moderately against the Bush policy. Republican Brian Bilbray, 55, a former three-term member of Congress, is moderately in favor.

Neither makes an issue of the war.

Iraq is not mentioned on Bilbray's list of top campaign issues. Busby says she was against the war from the start but does not believe in withdrawing U.S. troops until certain "benchmarks" are met. Just what those benchmarks might be she does not explain.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-fifty17apr17,0,7860940.story?coll=la-headlines-politics
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"All politics is local..."

[Tempest]

1. The number one issue in the 50th district is the GOP corruption

My brother and his family is in the district and that's all he and his friends talk about.

[LibDemAlways]

2. My husband's elderly aunt lives in the

district, and she's a single issue voter. All she cares about is preventing women she's never met and doesn't know the first thing about from having access to abortions. She doesn't give a damn about all the killing taking place in Iraq and thinks the chimp is a "God fearing Christian." She no doubt voted for "Duke" and couldn't care less how corrupt he was as long as he claimed to be "pro life."

I hope she isn't typical.