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Primaries for all parties
zepherin
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It is primary season.
And it’s looking to be a weird one.
Pennsylvania has a barn burner on the Republican Party with Dr. Oz narrowly ahead of David McCormick. Georgia is is currently having a knife fight on the Republican side.
There are others; I’ll edit the ToP later to reflect the more important primary contests.
What this thread is: a thread to discuss primaries, primary results and candidates for the 2022 elections.
What this thread isn’t. A thread to discuss any primary or election not in 2022. Which means 2016, 2020 Manchin and Sinema (who are not up for election this year).
And it’s looking to be a weird one.
Pennsylvania has a barn burner on the Republican Party with Dr. Oz narrowly ahead of David McCormick. Georgia is is currently having a knife fight on the Republican side.
There are others; I’ll edit the ToP later to reflect the more important primary contests.
What this thread is: a thread to discuss primaries, primary results and candidates for the 2022 elections.
What this thread isn’t. A thread to discuss any primary or election not in 2022. Which means 2016, 2020 Manchin and Sinema (who are not up for election this year).
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Fuck Joe Manchin
I'm extremely annoyed that Clyburn and Pelosi are still campaigning for him, to say nothing of the millions of dollars PACs are pouring into that race to keep an FBI-raided, anti-choice candidate in office
I am a little nervous about this one. It's Oregon's closest to a tossup district (D+3), and was changed fairly significantly in redistricting to pull in a lot more rural/red spaces. In an R wave, it could absolutely go Republican. Also, Republican primary voters outnumbered Dem primary by about 10%. It's good Schrader's gone, but we may lose this seat regardless.
It looks like at least one Republican on the overseeing board (split 2 R, 2 D) is pissed off about the massive election fraud in the Michigan GOP governor primary and wants to make an example of people.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2022/05/24/michigan-petition-forgery-signatures-prosecution/9909230002/
Early on Kemp is crushing Perdue in the GOP primary for governor. Raffensberger is up 10 or so for Secretary of State but that's very early.
EDIT: Called for Kemp.
So either the signature gatherers were really fucking lazy and couldn't be arsed to places to get signatures. I mean, you don't even need to go door to door for those, just find the areas where you get huge crowds of people and get permission to either setup a booth or stand around need the entrance or exit. If not that, they I guess they figured they could skimp on expenses by forging shit instead of having to devote resources towards camping out places that get huge crowds.
FWIW there was a pretty low-key word-of-mouth campaign around Atlanta for Dems to vote in the GOP primary specifically to pick Raffensberger as SecState, given that he's proved he can at least be relied upon not to invent a bunch of fake votes.
Dang, that last minute racism didn’t help Perdue after all
Among my political friends in Atlanta, I'm pretty much the only one who took the democratic ballot, everyone else voted as a spoiler for trumpists.
Somehow indicted for like half a decade with no actual trial.
Cuellar is DOWN 87 votes, but most of what's left is expected to go for him.
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And it already did. He's up 185 now.
And I’m reading this guy’s issues page and, while he is very religious, which is the sort of shit that you need to win in this fucking state but personally turns me off, he seems to be a perfectly passable dem? Like, the section on policing is “get our officers proper training and body cams,” which is never going to be enough for this board, but is infinitely better than what I thought it was going to be. I was expecting a watered-down Republican but he’s talking about “new, evidence-based approaches to justice” and ensuring kids have access to preschool and giving a living wage to workers and paid leave. Might he still be a watered-down Republican in sheep’s clothing? Maybe. Probably? But the fact that he might not be is mildly exciting!
The other guy in the dem primary (a Johnny L. DuPree) is the former mayor of Hattiesburg and there’s nothing on his site that tells me what he believes, which is disappointing. I’ll have to do more research on him.
I mean, it's much easier to just lie and more money in their pocket.
Don't worry, the Republicans decided that the candidates weren't to blame, and voted to throw out the bureau's report about fraudulent signatures.
But you need three votes out of the 2D/2R to be accepted onto the ballot, so five of them were DQed, including the frontrunner in the polls. Three of them are saying they're going to file a lawsuit though.
They have a whole infrastructure for dark money anonymous political adds. Michigan is 100% a state to spend some money. Maybe not Democratic candidates, but a super pac “conservatives for election integrity” starts spending on attack advertisements on conservative. It’s what I’d do, nobody gets to know who funded the pac. So use that to just cause chaos in the GOP process. Where they are clearly breaking the law.
Whitmer's up 20 on the new frontrunner, last time I checked.
Haven't been able to do shit with this legislature since before you or I were alive, though
This would be a smarter route. Dems getting actively involved would immediately turn the story into Democrats Trying To Jail Opponents and shit. Every single Republican that should be indicted gets to whine about political interference blahblahblah hypocrisy projection bullshit. Better to let them duke it out, and use nonDem means to exacerbate their internal hostilities.