Bill Maher’s flip-a-district flops as MN congressman coasts to win

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Watchdog.org:

HBO host Bill Maher wasn’t on the ballot in Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District this week, but then neither was President Obama. Right?

 

The “Real Time” talking head inserted himself into the race as surely as the chief executive, targeting the suburban Twin Cities seat held by GOP Congressman John Kline for his much ballyhooed “flip-a-district” national campaign.

 

“John Kline, he’s one of those silent threats you never see coming,” said Maher in making the announcement weeks ago in Washington. “Ebola, ISIS, John Kline.”

 

When the votes were added up though, the race was over early, a blow-out. Six-term congressman Kline doubled his margin of victory over challenger Mike Obermueller in a rematch from 2012. The former Marine One pilot thumped Obermueller by 18 percent in 2014, compared to about 8 percent in the last election cycle.

 

So was it a referendum on Maher, Obama, Obermueller — or all of the above?

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Well, i guess we picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. And flipping Republicans. Enjoy it John Kline, at least people are on to U now

 

2:16 PM - 5 Nov 2014

 

Classy Bill, Real Classy.