Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley by 4136 votes in a primary where only 13% of registered Democrats bothered to vote. And for that, The Nation is declaring her the next Barack Obama:
The Nation: "Ever since she beat Crowley… Ocasio-Cortez has been on a journey reminiscent of the one that swept the young winner of the 2004 Illinois Democratic Senate primary, Barack Obama, onto the nat'l stage." https://t.co/itYALlg4u4
— Robert Costa (@costareports) August 16, 2018
Um, no:
bad take https://t.co/wJ6ISIPNtN
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) August 16, 2018
Politico editor-in-chief Blake Hounshell adds that he doesn’t remember then Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama “struggling in interviews”:
This is not at all the case — I don't recall Obama facing the same swift backlash, or struggling in interviews. https://t.co/gXb9gT86e1
— Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) August 16, 2018
And Matthew Yglesias adds that Ocasio-Cortez lacks Obama’s state senate experience (but it was 3 terms, 7 years, not “three years”):
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1030053893852549121
He did have a little bit more of a background for this sort of thing:
Um…no disrespect to her, but before he ran for federal office, Obama was a Constitutional law professor, president of the Harvard Law Review and had served as a 3-term state Senator. https://t.co/v4kw3EydKL
— Charles Gaba (@charles_gaba) August 16, 2018
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Why hype her like this when she can’t ever meet it?
She's terrific, but no. https://t.co/GS65GCD2R8
— Dan Fagin (@danfagin) August 16, 2018
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