Were going to start with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cuban missile crisis was 1962. It took place over 13 very, very stressful days in october 1962. The United States at that point had long been flying High Altitude surveillance flights over the nation of cuba, but on october 14th, 1962 a u2 surveillance flight picked up imagery in cuba of something that started that whole crisis, started that whole standoff. Its interesting. The Cuban Missile Crisis is very precisely identified in all the history books as having started on october 16th. Two days after that u2 spy plane captured those images in cuba. But the crisis didnt start on october 16th because something happened that day, because there was some overt act by cuba, there was some provocation there or some announcement by them, it didnt start because on october 16th there was some act by the
soviet union or some announcement by the soviets that kicked off this crisis. The reason we can be so specific about when the Cuban Missile Cris
our message of, one, making sure everybody has the same kind of opportunity that i know i had from this community, and two, making sure that people knew what we were fighting for. our campaign tried really, really hard to talk to as many people as possible about wanting to make sure that everybody had access to affordable quality health care, making sure that we sent somebody to washington, d.c. who really cared about public education, about campaign finance reform. and that was really the focus of what we were doing. obviously, coming from the district and having grown up there and knowing what it s like, i can tell from the way you re talking about it that you re focused on constituent services and what you want to be able to do for the district, what you think congressman yoder wasn t able to do. but i think it s also obvious that you re going to have a big national spotlight on you because of how big a win this was, because you flipped this district, because of who you are, becau
wasn t able to do. but i think it s also obvious that you re going to have a big national spotlight on you because of how big a win this was, because you flipped this district, because of who you are, because of how you won. what are your goals for washington for your first term? you re going to get a lot of attention, and you re going to have probably your pick of the litter in terms of what you want to tackle first. well, certainly i want to be able to work on health care was the biggest issue that i heard from people about the entire time i was on the campaign trail, and so, down, that means that that has to be a big part of what i focus on. you know, the folks here in the third district are really concerned about making sure that we send somebody to washington, d.c. who is taking our voice and our values there, and that means being pragmatic. that means trying to figure out ways that we can build some kind of bipartisan change. so those are the kinds of things i want to focus o
our campaign tried really, really hard to talk to as many people as possible about wanting to make sure that everybody had access to affordable quality health care, making sure that we sent somebody to washington, d.c. who really cared about public education, about campaign finance reform, and that was really the focus of what we were doing. obviously, coming from the district and having grown up there and knowing what it s like, i can tell from the way that you re talking about it that you re focused on constituent services and what you want to be able to do for the district. what you think congressman yoder wasn t able to do. but i think it s also obvious that you re going to have a big national spotlight on you because of how big a win this was, because you flipped this district, because of who you are, because of how you won. what are your goals for washington, for your first term? you re going to get a lot of attention and you re probably going to have your pick of the litter in
at the daily kos today there was a little bit of chest pounding over how big a win this was in democrats direction. if democrats everywhere do as well as they did in pennsylvania, they re now howling at the moon about how many congressional districts would flip from red to blue if democrats did as well as connor lamb did last night. if every congressional election in november had a swing toward the democrats as big as what connor lamb did in pennsylvania, there are 119 republican held congressional seats that would instead go to a democrat in november. 119 flips? probably not. but democrats only need to pick up 23 seats if they re going to win the house. if they picked up 119 seats they could do north korean style plaque card waiving. in pennsylvania the republican in the race isn t conceding. this evening. rick saccone s spokesman said, quote, this fight is not over.