RE: Pat Buchanan

Dennis I have to somewhat disagree with your comment that “people do not vote against someone because of party affiliation”. Patrick, Joel and Russo’s losses were a direct result of people not voting for someone because of party affiliation. I would bet that if you swapped the party for each candidate in those races the results would have been different and Patrick, Joel and Russo would have won as Democrats.

Yes in certain cases like Bloomberg people will vote for the person but overall they vote for the party. As my grandmother always says, “In my day we always voted Democrat, that’s just what we do”.