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TummyDrums t1_j64rbg8 wrote

Reply to comment by deborah_jai in MO 7th district representative by laffingriver

I think a lot of people care. Trouble is you need >50% of people to care and an election cycle to be in swing before anything can be done about it.

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skucera t1_j65axd3 wrote

If the democrats voted in the republican primary (totally allowable, just request the (R) ballot at the poll), dems + reasonable republicans could elect a "better" nominee.

Edit: It wouldn't have taken very many votes…

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Always_0421 t1_j6avsfy wrote

>It wouldn't have taken very many votes…

Jay Wasson, the runner up to Burlison, had nearly 20k total votes, 13k+ short of the 33k+ Burlison pulled to win the primary.

The winner of the dem primary had 11k total votes; just over 17k TOTAL dems votes in the primary on a democratic ticket

Seems pretty unlikely to be able to pull a bit more than 75% of the Democratic primary votes to a single candidate on the Republican ticket.

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