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skucera t1_j65axd3 wrote

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

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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