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'Girl from the Bronx' Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, faces questions over her 'working class' background

Gaius46 said:
Yorktown Heights is solidly middle class. It isn't a typically wealthy Westchester community. Median family income is around 100K.
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96K give or take a few pennies. But yeah, you're right. Hardly rich, solidly middle class.
 
zimmer said:
Yep... the Democrat Swamp is not amused.
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Look at how they freak when it comes out her story is different from the advertising.
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It’s not. You fell for propaganda.
 
zimmer said:
Yep... the Democrat Swamp is not amused.
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Look at how they freak when it comes out her story is different from the advertising.
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lmao, it's on her website dude. It's literally the story she is advertising. You're pathetic.
 
Hatuey said:
Did your jackals dig for facts on her campaign page? I'd probably start there. Odd concept for a Trump voter to find information about their candidate on his page, I know.
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Obviously the Brits did some digging that doesn’t sit well with the Left.
 
zimmer said:
Obviously the Brits did some digging that doesn’t sit well with the Left.
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These stunning facts you think were just uncovered were on her ****ing website the whole time.
 
zimmer said:
Obviously the Brits did some digging that doesn’t sit well with the Left.
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Some digging.... by visiting HER PAGE.

Let me guess, you worked in media for 10 years too?

:roll:
 
Sampson Simpson said:
She has already addressed this typical stupid right **** flinging. As usual, no fact, no logic, no reasoning, no intelligence from the right, just attack
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The right is going add her to the poster children of the left is. They will use her on a national level to scare the right into believing the left wants to turn the nation into a socialist nation.

Here's something nobody is talking about that I'm curious about its implication

She won a district of over 700k people that less than 30k people voted in. Is that a normal primary voter number turn out? It suggests to me that there may not be as much enthusiasm for the blue wave as many are thinking.

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trouble13 said:
The right is going add her to the poster children of the left is. They will use her on a national level to scare the right into believing the left wants to turn the nation into a socialist nation.
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Bernie was a competitive candidate that probably would've beat Trump in the general. Her policies are supported by a huge chunk of Americans.

Here's something nobody is talking about that I'm curious about its implication

She won a district of over 700k people that less than 30k people voted in. Is that a normal primary voter number turn out? It suggests to me that there may not be as much enthusiasm for the blue wave as many are thinking.

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It was a democratic primary in a district where the incumbent had won it for years. Of course there's going to be low turnout in something like that, inherently. A better view of the blue wave would be to look at elections that democrats have already won, and where democrats are polling in upcoming elections. For example, the fact that Cruz's seat is competitive is telling in itself.
 
Khayembii Communique said:
Bernie was a competitive candidate that probably would've beat Trump in the general. Her policies are supported by a huge chunk of Americans.



It was a democratic primary in a district where the incumbent had won it for years. Of course there's going to be low turnout in something like that, inherently. A better view of the blue wave would be to look at elections that democrats have already won, and where democrats are polling in upcoming elections. For example, the fact that Cruz's seat is competitive is telling in itself.
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on the other hand, primaries are generally won by candidates who can get their base energized to vote at the polls.
 
RetiredUSN said:
Is this the Bronx girl who grew up in Westchester?

Another Hillary and Pocahontas?

Why are you triggered so easily?
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Why are you so easily fooled?
 
zimmer said:
Not a good idea to tell me what to do or how to do it.

I noticed, you didn’t comment of the prevarication.

PS. Westchester is not the slum area of NY.
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Not a good idea to clip the rest of my comment, which I'll repeat:

Not really. If what you want is a trust fund baby born on third base with an entire set of silver, spoons, knives, forks, crystal goblets, like W. Bush or Trump, she's not the person.

Stories like this are preaching to the choir, which in this case is comprised of people who'd cut off their right arm before voting for her. No one else is going to care. Give it a rest.
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The bolded is what you ignored.

I'll add why do you think anyone voting for her is going to care about her biography that does not in fact claim she grew up in a slum area of NY?
 
zimmer said:
The Jackals come out like in The Omen when it seems the NY Socialist seems to have shaded her history.

PS. They call it journalism. Dig for facts, present them to the public. An odd concept for today’s Leftists... I know... but it does happen now and again.

Not surprising, it was Brits who uncovered the truth.
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You never research thees type Headlines just jump in the pool, and then notice much to late there is no water.
 
trouble13 said:
The right is going add her to the poster children of the left is. They will use her on a national level to scare the right into believing the left wants to turn the nation into a socialist nation.

Here's something nobody is talking about that I'm curious about its implication

She won a district of over 700k people that less than 30k people voted in. Is that a normal primary voter number turn out? It suggests to me that there may not be as much enthusiasm for the blue wave as many are thinking.

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I can’t speak to this district specifically right now but overall Democrat primary turnout is a lot higher than previous midterms. Couple places where a midterm primary turnout was higher than the ELECTION turnout from 2016..;which was a presidential election.

So by the measure you decided to go with (primary turnout), Democrats are turning out big. So by your standard that indicates... what, exactly?
 
late said:
I'd like to see the text all this is based on. If it was good, the fishwives would have included it.
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https://ocasio2018.com/about

Alexandria was born in the Bronx to two working-class parents. Her father was a small business owner from the South Bronx. Her mother was born in Puerto Rico, growing up around a large family near Arecibo. She grew up in a working-class household where her mother cleaned homes and everyone pitched in on the family business.

From an early age, Alexandria grew up with a deep understanding of income inequality. The state of Bronx public schools in the late 80s and early 90s sent her parents on a search for a solution. She ended up attending public school 40 minutes north in Yorktown, and much of her life was defined by the 40 minute commute between school and her family in the Bronx. It was clear to her, even then, that the zip code a child was born in determined much of their destiny. The 40 minute drive represented a vastly different quality of available schooling, economic opportunity, and health outcomes.

Alexandria eventually went on to study at Boston University, where she earned degrees in Economics and International Relations. While there, she worked for the late Sen. Kennedy handling foreign affairs and immigration casework for constituent families.
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JasperL said:
Can you explain why anyone would care she spent approximately 13 of her 29 years in Westchester, versus the Bronx where she lived until 5 and moved back to (same apt.) after college and was working as a bartender, etc. when she decided to run for office?
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16 of 29 is 55.17%, so she is, at least "factually correct" when she says that she "came from the Bronx".
 
Hmmmmm…..her parents moved her out of a ghetto when she was 5 due to the ****ty schools in her hood....yet, she supports the exact same policies and has the same exact attitude of the people who made those policies which made those schools hell holes to begin with! Weird.
 
Khayembii Communique said:
It's funny how people seem to hear Westchester and think she's wealthy, and then hear Bronx and think she's claiming she was poor. Almost as if people have no idea what either of these areas are like and are projecting their own decades-old views onto those places...
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Agree. People who aren't from the area assume the Bronx is a wasteland. There are some extremely wealthy areas of the Bronx and some run of the mill middle class neighborhoods in Westchester. Really most of downstate NY is like that but non-locals don't realize it.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
A person who says that they grew up in a place they left when 5 is lying.
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You're a Trump supporter. I'd think you'd consider lying to a virtue - that's what Trump tells us about his lies... :roll:
 
itsforthekids said:
Hmmmmm…..her parents moved her out of a ghetto when she was 5 due to the ****ty schools in her hood....yet, she supports the exact same policies and has the same exact attitude of the people who made those policies which made those schools hell holes to begin with! Weird.
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It's weird that you'd make something up as dumb as that and assert it as fact. :roll:
 
JasperL said:
You're a Trump supporter. I'd think you'd consider lying to a virtue - that's what Trump tells us about his lies... :roll:
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Truth Tellers never consider lying to be a virtue, I suggest that you wise up.
 
americanwoman said:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...es-not-from-bronx_us_5b3a1850e4b007aa2f81ce1c

Additionally, according to her campaign website, Ocasio-Cortez never hid that she also lived in Yorktown Heights. While she was born in the Bronx and lived in the borough’s Parkchester apartments, she relocated to Yorktown Heights at the age of 5 to get a better education.

Great detective work there John but don't quit your day job. :lol:
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I do love how they credit her with "relocating at the age of 5. Her parents had nothing to do with that, right?
 
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