Where Are Davis’ Dems?

I could hardly stop laughing about David Davis’ lame claim about “huge numbers of Democratic” crossover votes influencing his (well-deserved) election defeat. What “huge number”?

Considering the traditional high proportion of Republican Party affiliation in the voting population of this district, I’m convinced that the small number of Democrats in the district could hardly be called “huge,” let alone produce a crossover voting bloc sufficient to influence the outcome of such an election.

As a lifelong Democrat who has never missed a major election, local and national, in 51 years, it nevertheless would not occur to me to cast a crossover vote in a Republican primary, even if I did receive organized solicitation. As it happens, despite my active Democratic voting record, I received no such solicitation by telephone, e-mail or otherwise, as suggested in Davis’ various whinings, and for which no evidence has thus far been supplied.

I do find myself wondering (of course, as a member of the local and distinctly minority Democratic population) how Davis could garner the Republican support of almost 50 percent in this election, considering the picture of him that has consistently emerged as a biased, rigid, one-dimensional, covert, ineffectual and, now, conniving jerk.
My congratulations to Phil Roe.

Larry Schrik
Bristol, Va.