Bye-Bye Allen West
Posted on the 07 November 2012 by Mikeb302000
The Huffington Post reports
Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) isn't coming back to Congress.
After months of battling through one of the nastiest and most
expensive races in the country, the Tea Party freshman was knocked out
of his seat, barely, by Democratic newcomer Patrick Murphy.
It was a tight race all night, which paralleled the razor-thin
margins polls showed between the candidates over the past few months.
West and Murphy were competing for Florida's 18th Congressional
District, an evenly split district that was redrawn in 2010.
West pitched himself as a military veteran who spent his first term
in Congress voting to deregulate government, create jobs and overhaul
Medicare as a way to preserve it.
Murphy, a construction company owner who struggled for name
recognition among voters, ran a campaign built almost entirely on the
message that he is the antithesis to West's better-known reputation:
that of a party extremist known for saying offensive things to or about
Democrats.