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Aug

by Moonage

Think your vote doesn’t count?  Look at this:

COUNTY  TOTAL BY COUNTY Jason Allen  Dan Benishek   
 
01 ALCONA 2,052 559 545 54%
02 ALGER 1,859 527 469 54%
04 ALPENA 4,912 1,293 1,424 55%
05 ANTRIM 5,547 2,549 910 62%
06 ARENAC 2,089 498 450 45%
07 BARAGA 1,195 159 497 55%
09 BAY 4,672 904 776 36%
15 CHARLEVOIX 4,891 2,282 907 65%
16 CHEBOYGAN 5,208 2,228 1,293 68%
17 CHIPPEWA 4,723 1,788 921 57%
20 CRAWFORD 2,246 834 376 54%
21 DELTA 4,546 568 1,892 54%
22 DICKINSON 3,851 533 2,322 74%
24 EMMET 5,564 2,634 1,186 69%
26 GLADWIN 3,511 941 624 45%
27 GOGEBIC 1,833 146 523 36%
31 HOUGHTON 4,368 422 1,883 53%
35 IOSCO 3,744 721 988 46%
36 IRON 2,306 165 897 46%
42 KEWEENAW 493 26 223 51%
48 LUCE 1,002 219 337 55%
49 MACKINAC 2,255 763 591 60%
52 MARQUETTE 7,592 1,101 2,351 45%
55 MENOMINEE 1,752 248 708 55%
60 MONTMORENCY 1,998 803 365 58%
65 OGEMAW 3,146 679 644 42%
66 ONTONAGON 1,290 133 321 35%
68 OSCODA 1,477 475 277 51%
69 OTSEGO 4,409 1,769 1,022 63%
71 PRESQUE ISLE 2,650 845 828 63%
77 SCHOOLCRAFT 1,874 278 541 44%
Totals  99,055 27,090 27,091 55%

That’s right.  Jason Allen’s failure to get one more voter to care enough to go to the polls and vote cost him the election most likely.  This return I’m sure will assure a re-count and contentious accusations.  But the bottom line is 45% of the Republicans in the First Congressional District of Michigan abdicated their responsibility in the democratic process.  They therefore have no right to complain.  Talk to the hand, I don’t want to hear it.  They’ll be the first ones to bitch about government, they’ll be the first ones to expect handouts.  But, they’ll not even put enough effort in the process to even go to the polls and vote. 

Now, where this matters is this particular district has not elected a Republican since 1931.  They’ve had some pretty bad Democrats lately too.  These elections are to replace Bart Stupak.  He’s the guy that was opposing Obamacare because it funded abortion.  So, he inserted an amendment banning it.  The Senate stripped out HIS amendment and he changed his mind and voted for it anyway.  You just don’t get any more useless in Congress than proving publicly you’re not going to stand behind your own legislation.  Over his career he sponsored thirty-six bills.  Not one ever got passed.  He co-signed 157.  That means, in his case, someone else wrote the bill and he offered his support.  Five of those got passed.  In seventeen years.  The one thing he did better than most was skip votes entirely:

Congress Votes Misses  
111        1,391         113 7.5%
110        1,821          55 2.9%
109        1,125          89 7.3%
108        1,140          81 6.6%
107           955          41 4.1%
106        1,095         119 9.8%
105        1,158          29 2.4%
104        1,321          19 1.4%
103        1,109          13 1.2%
        11,115         559 4.8%

So, Michigan One, nearly 5% of the time you’ve not had a say in Congress at all.  None.  Nada.  But, if Bart had run again, I’m sure he would have won.  However, the record I see tells me the guy didn’t have his heart in it and he finally did the right thing.  So now, you guys have a choice.  And the very obvious conclusion from yesterday is whether it’s Jason Allen or Dan Benishek is totally irrelevant.  27,000 voters will not elect anyone.  You guys will get the Democrat, no matter who it is.  They don’t even need to pander to the Republicans.  They apparently don’t even need to show up in Congress.  If that’s case, you guys will be ignored yet another seventeen years.

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