May 18, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets even more unpopular in her home district
By Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...even_more_unpopular_in_her_home_district.html
Apparently, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's famous chaseout of Amazon was not a one-day story, at least not for her Bronx and Queens voters in District 14 who got stiffed of those job opportunities thanks to the socialist "it" girl.
They're still thinking about it, still remembering, according to the 'Stop the AOC PAC,' which focuses its resources on finding a way to get her out of there, and now she sports a mere 20% 'favorable' rating. According to the Daily Caller:
The Daily Caller piece has several interesting charts and graphs showing Ocasio-Cortez's downward slide among these voters, which obviously isn't recovering. Ocasio-Cortez obviously hasn't been paying much attention to her district, even with a poll a couple months ago showing that President Trump was more popular in her state than she was. It also reveals that the district has a high count of politically unengaged people, voters who don't even know who she is, which, from her point of view, isn't such good news, as it means they can easily vote for the next guy or stay home if their annoyance with Ocasio-Cortez lasts. They are annoyed and now the charts are showing that her unpopularity is lingering.
Interestingly enough, she hasn't tried to rectify this. She chased out a big company that offers good salaries and benefits to locals in the name of being anti-corporation, and still hasn't apologized or tried to offer New Yorkers something concretely better. In New York, home of big corporations, that's pretty stupid. All she does is talk about a Green New Deal, which got no votes in a Senate count. The Amazon thing is something she must expect will go away. And it's not going away - it's what New Yorkers bring up every time her name comes up. For any pol, that's not good.
Even the much-loathed Bill DeBlasio was angry at Ocasio-Cortez on this matter. Unpopular as it he, he knew enough to know that this was not going to wash with New Yorkers.
The other thing is, and this is anecdotal, but it's commonly known, too, that politicians are expected to bring home the bacon in New York. I've lived in Queens and Bronx myself and anecdotally know that for all New Yorkers' liberalism, there's a grainy insistence on common sense on economic matters - and you don't see this in blue cities such as San Francisco, which I have also 'experienced.' New Yorkers do care about local issues in 'da neighbahood' and any pol that tosses them and their priorities overboard in the name of either national, or (worse still) Manhattan priorities, is going to get smacked.
We can roughly see the outlines of this forming now in the Ocasio-Cortez boroughs.
One can balance the fact that the poll was done by a PAC and that the PAC is politically motivated to find something negative to say about Ocasio-Cortez along these lines, but the fact that the PAC managed to interview 700 households in one congressional district is a significant counterweight, that's a very meaty sample for a congressional district, which would tend to suggest its conclusions are on target.
So much as we'd like Ocasio-Cortez to stay, given her usefulness to conservatives on the national stage, it's heartening to see some semblance of sanity in our fellow New Yorkers, liberal as they are otherwise. We all know New Yorkers we can relate to outside politics, because they have this sort of sanity. One hopes this makes Ocasio-Cortez pretty miserable up until she becomes a 'remember her' flash in the pan in coming years.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets even more unpopular in her home district
By Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...even_more_unpopular_in_her_home_district.html
Apparently, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's famous chaseout of Amazon was not a one-day story, at least not for her Bronx and Queens voters in District 14 who got stiffed of those job opportunities thanks to the socialist "it" girl.
They're still thinking about it, still remembering, according to the 'Stop the AOC PAC,' which focuses its resources on finding a way to get her out of there, and now she sports a mere 20% 'favorable' rating. According to the Daily Caller:
The Daily Caller piece has several interesting charts and graphs showing Ocasio-Cortez's downward slide among these voters, which obviously isn't recovering. Ocasio-Cortez obviously hasn't been paying much attention to her district, even with a poll a couple months ago showing that President Trump was more popular in her state than she was. It also reveals that the district has a high count of politically unengaged people, voters who don't even know who she is, which, from her point of view, isn't such good news, as it means they can easily vote for the next guy or stay home if their annoyance with Ocasio-Cortez lasts. They are annoyed and now the charts are showing that her unpopularity is lingering.
Interestingly enough, she hasn't tried to rectify this. She chased out a big company that offers good salaries and benefits to locals in the name of being anti-corporation, and still hasn't apologized or tried to offer New Yorkers something concretely better. In New York, home of big corporations, that's pretty stupid. All she does is talk about a Green New Deal, which got no votes in a Senate count. The Amazon thing is something she must expect will go away. And it's not going away - it's what New Yorkers bring up every time her name comes up. For any pol, that's not good.
Even the much-loathed Bill DeBlasio was angry at Ocasio-Cortez on this matter. Unpopular as it he, he knew enough to know that this was not going to wash with New Yorkers.
The other thing is, and this is anecdotal, but it's commonly known, too, that politicians are expected to bring home the bacon in New York. I've lived in Queens and Bronx myself and anecdotally know that for all New Yorkers' liberalism, there's a grainy insistence on common sense on economic matters - and you don't see this in blue cities such as San Francisco, which I have also 'experienced.' New Yorkers do care about local issues in 'da neighbahood' and any pol that tosses them and their priorities overboard in the name of either national, or (worse still) Manhattan priorities, is going to get smacked.
We can roughly see the outlines of this forming now in the Ocasio-Cortez boroughs.
One can balance the fact that the poll was done by a PAC and that the PAC is politically motivated to find something negative to say about Ocasio-Cortez along these lines, but the fact that the PAC managed to interview 700 households in one congressional district is a significant counterweight, that's a very meaty sample for a congressional district, which would tend to suggest its conclusions are on target.
So much as we'd like Ocasio-Cortez to stay, given her usefulness to conservatives on the national stage, it's heartening to see some semblance of sanity in our fellow New Yorkers, liberal as they are otherwise. We all know New Yorkers we can relate to outside politics, because they have this sort of sanity. One hopes this makes Ocasio-Cortez pretty miserable up until she becomes a 'remember her' flash in the pan in coming years.