The Democrat's Logic

Here is a nice example of the state of denial by Democrats.  In an article about Steve Stivers deciding to make another run at Mary Jo Kilroy we have this gem:

Gabby Adler, a spokeswoman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), said Republican leaders are making Stivers “their pet project.”

“They simply don’t understand that Central Ohio voters have already rejected Steve Stivers once and continue to have no interest in supporting a bank lobbyist whose priority is fighting for Washington special interests above the needs of hardworking Ohio families,” Adler said.

From earlier in the article:

Stivers fell to Kilroy by less than 1 percent in 2008 … Another factor to watch in 2010 will be third-party candidates, who took 9 percent of the vote last year and helped deliver the race to Kilroy.

So let’s see, a race where Stivers lost by less than 1% and where more people actually voted against Kilroy that voted for her (Sitvers plus 3rd party candidates), means “Central Ohio voters have already rejected Steve Stivers once and continue to have no interest in supporting” him. Right …

That is a rather different concept of rejection than the one I am familiar with. 137,271 people vote for Stivers and that is rejection.  139,582 vote for Kilroy and that settles the issue once and for all I guess.

The irony is that Kilroy followed the same path Stivers is contemplating:

[S]he came within about 1,000 votes of defeating the 14-year incumbent Pryce in another midterm year in 2006.

I will confess I am having a hard time following the logic, but that is so often the case with Democrats.