Tuesday, November 13, 2012

One More Thought on Berman-Sherman


Junior Congressman Brad Sherman won the new 30th District, despite the line-up of the entire Democratic Congressional Delegation, plus a few Republican Senators who supported the elder statesman Howard Berman.

What happened? Geography and local legacy happened, and both were against Berman from the beginning.

One week has passed for the voters and the pundits to pause and reflect on Election Day 2012. I “wanna get into” the lessons that we can learn from the contentious 30th Congressional district race.

The voters chose the candidate. Statewide incumbents and delegations lost power.

The growing clout of the Hispanic vote is emerging. If Republicans pay more attention to streamlining the welfare programs and the naturalization process, the Democratic Party will lose its disillusioned hold on Hispanics.

The Framers’ intent for Congressional districts, their expectations about the outcomes of the popular vote, has been maintained once again. District elections belong to voters, not to pundits.

Republicans can retool their message to reach out to minorities and every other voter still feeling the pinch of spend-thrift government still unchecked. The next two years will be Democratic infighting on a statewide scale, with nothing but opportunities for the Republican Party to take back the state.

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