The outspoken Iraq War mom activist of a fallen solider is doing what Al Gore told everyone to do at the end of his documentary film "An Inconvenient Truth", "If she/he doesn’t listen, run for congress".
Well, Ms. Sheehan is on the brink of running as an independent to unseat Majority House Leader Nancy Pelosi from her San Francisco congressional district house seat in 2008, unless she files articles of impeachment within the next two weeks. I’m pretty sure Ms. Pelosi won’t bulge one foot by this political ambition and therefore she will be in the toughest political dogfight of her career.
If there is one congressional district in America where an independent can win a political contest its California’s 8th Congressional District. In 2006 Nancy Pelosi did win 80% of the vote, but the political registry figures are so diverse in CA-8 that Sheehan is capable of winning.
The CA-8 (San Francisco) Voter Numbers
340,252 total voters
Democrats 180,710 (54.87%)
Decline to State 99,036 (29.11%)
Republicans 34,252 (10.07%)
American Independent 5,482 (1.61%)
Green Party 10,543 (3.10%)
Libertarian 1,930 (0.57%)
Peace and Freedom 1,370 (0.40%)
Other 938 (0.28%)
These figures are very intriguing and make it politically realistic for Sheehan to pull off a win as an independent in 2008. Nancy Pelosi has shown some effective leadership in her short stint as House Majority Leader, but she has failed in protecting her country’s best interests by not introducing/supporting articles of impeachment of both Mr. Bush & Cheney.
Approximately, only 65% of the San Francisco voters are registered as being party affiliated and in 2006 only 10% of the CA-8 electorate voted Republican. These are more intriguing reasons to give Sheehan a greater level of optimism regarding her 2008 congressional house run.
George Bush may not be running for president again in 2008, but war-mongering disciples such as Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and Fred Thompson will be. If you think I’m lying go Youtube videos of Rudy at the 2004 Republican convention and all the debate footage of the Republican candidates.