In fact, Crowley — Irish-American and from Queens — was presumed to do better there than Ocasio-Cortez, who — Puerto Rican and from the Bronx — was expected to carry her home borough. But Romalewski mapped out the votes across the district, and what he found was the exact opposite of the pundits’ conclusion: Crowley, known until last week as the king of Queens, was crushed almost everywhere, but he did better in the Bronx.
“You can also see that most of her votes, the strongest vote support came from areas like Astoria in Queens and Sunnyside in Queens and parts of Jackson Heights that, number one, were not predominantly Hispanic, so they’re a more mixed population, and are areas where — this is kind of a term of art — are in the process of being gentrified, where newer people are moving in,” said Romalewski.
But one waitress has a bad memory of working with Ocasio-Cortez, 28, as Ocasio-Cortez tended bar during the very busy Cinco de Mayo celebration in 2017.
At the end of the night, when it came time to split the $560 in tips she had gotten at the bar, Ocasio-Cortez gave the waitress only $50. After the waitress complained to her manager, her take was doubled to $100, a source said.
“It says so much about her character,” said my source. “From that point on, I wouldn’t talk to her. I couldn’t look at her.”
Wow, another Bernie-Boogie.
Perhaps the most relevant variable in Ocasio-Cortez’s electoral success is that the drop-off voters didn’t just vote, they got involved. Starting with the base of voters identified by Justice Democrats, an innovative data operation put that army to work. In a tactic developed with field directors from other Justice Democrats campaigns, Chakrabarti said they used voter files to find local residents on social media, and then targeted them with digital ads. Having made a potential voter aware of the campaign, they would then follow up by sending a canvasser to knock on the voter’s door. The combination of the digital ad and the door-knock added up to more than the sum of its parts.
“From day one, these volunteers started knocking doors and reaching into their own networks to expand this volunteer army, allowing us to go into election day with over a thousand volunteers willing to mobilize voters,” Chakrabarti said. “We buttressed door knocking with a heavy digital, phone calling and texting strategy that targeted progressive voters
wow, they basically almost literally copied Bernie-Trump-Putin's election theft tactics that Hillary's campaign refused to stoop to using in places like Michigan, Wisconsin, etc.
all while Bernie angerly refused to even set foot in a march against Trump's policies unless they were only involving white males and has constantly voted against full-fledged complete comprehensive bipartisan total administrative holistic comprehensive immigration reform
and he's not even part of the party, yet they let him dictate what their rules on superdelegates can be? when he's out there allying with Sarah Huckabee Sanders on everything?
With the Republicans in control of the Presidency, Congress and Supreme Court and the Bernie-Boogie-Bots now in control of the "Democratic" Party, this truly is a dictatorship.
Wouldn't be surprised if Bernie crosses the rubicon and crowns himself Emperor at this point.
