Ocasio-Cortez rallies for Cori Bush at The Ready Room

[oberliner]

Last month, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a self-professed democratic socialist and advocate of universal healthcare and free higher education for all, defeated incumbent Joe Crowley in her New York City Democratic congressional primary. Her upset win made national headlines. Now, she’s on the campaign trail far from New York, hoping to aid other candidates in mirroring her primary success.

Saturday, July 21, Ocasio-Cortez came to St. Louis to stump for Florissant resident and congressional candidate Cori Bush, who is running against incumbent U.S. Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-MO) in the Democratic primary on August 7th.

“What I’m asking for you to do is to support my sister Cori Bush,” Ocasio-Cortez told the hundreds who came to the Ready Room to support Bush’s congressional run. “Support her because she supports improved and expanded Medicare for all. Support her, because she believes in tuition free college...support her because she believes in criminal justice reform and ending the war on drugs. Support her because she believes in a green New Deal to save our climate and our planet for our future.”

http://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/ocasio-cortez-rallies-for-cori-bush-at-the-ready-room/article_7b8b5abc-8df1-11e8-85f5-1b8111cf0ce5.html

[ladjf]

1. I think Ms. Ocasio-Cortez is a great young politician. nt

[oberliner]

2. Agreed

She has injected a lot of energy into the Democratic party!

[RandySF]

3. I saw a video of the crowd.

I don't think they reflect the likely primary electorate.

[oberliner]

4. Can you elaborate on that?

Do you have a link to the video?

[RandySF]

5. ,

Link to tweet

[oberliner]

6. Thanks

Quite a young crowd - which is a good sign if they come out to vote!

[Blue_true]

8. They won't be a factor in the House primary race, other than as money contributors. nt

[oberliner]

9. What are you talking about?

[Blue_true]

12. I completely doubt that they live in the district. nt

[oberliner]

14. Based on what?

[Blue_true]

15. A hunch.

RandySF presented data, there are more Whites in the district that I suspected. So I stand corrected on that belief. I just don't see Blacks rejecting a capable Rep. Black voters are sensible in that regard, as well as a lot of other areas when it comes to knowing where their best interests lay.

[RandySF]

16. And my hunch is

that while it is always good to see greater participation among people, the overall primary electorate is going to be older on average and more diverse than the crowd in that room. But if St. Louis changed as rapidly as rapidly as Brooklyn did, my hunch could be obsolete.

[Blue_true]

17. The concern that I have is primary voters tend to be the most hardcore.

I misspoke and your data confirmed that. Whites are close to 50:50 in that district. It is possible that a lot of people in that room could vote there. If that happens, all bets are off if the other candidate does not turn out his supporters well.

I owe Oberliner an apology on this one. Well, on to the next battle.

[Blue_true]

7. Exactly. Was there a Black person anywhere in that crowd? nt

[oberliner]

10. Did you not watch the video?

[RandySF]

13. I saw two African-Americans

Cori Bush and a young lady in the crowd.

[RandySF]

11. Here are the MO-01 demographics.

Population: 739,977
Gender: 52.9% Female, 47.1% Male
Race[1]: 48.9% Black, 44.9% White, 2.3% Asian
Ethnicity: 3.2% Hispanic
Unemployment: 14.7%
Median household income $37,115
High school graduation rate 86.5%
College graduation rate 27.7%

https://ballotpedia.org/Missouri%27s_1st_Congressional_District