Fake Dem wins in Mequon (affluent town in Darling's WI Senate district.)
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Thu Jul-14-11 01:04 PM
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Fake Dem wins in Mequon (affluent town in Darling's WI Senate district.) |
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Sandy Pasch (real D) 2245 votes
Glays Huber (fake D) 2278 votes
In Mequon 1.7% of the population live below the poverty line
compared with
Milwaukee (adjacent to Mequon) where 21.3% of the population lives below the poverty line
Vote numbers from local newspaper, demographics from wikipedia.
Pasch did win the overall primary however.
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Thu Jul-14-11 01:08 PM
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1. What does "the overall primary" mean? |
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Thu Jul-14-11 01:10 PM
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2. Probably that she won the district, which consists of more than that one town. |
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Thu Jul-14-11 01:13 PM
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4. The real Dem won the election in the Senate district. |
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One of the towns within the district is so Republican that they showed up to vote for the fake Dem when there was no race on the Repub side.
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Thu Jul-14-11 01:12 PM
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3. Still, not a bad margin, considering the demographics. |
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It looks like a good many of them voted for the greater good, rather than their own selfish interests.
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Thu Jul-14-11 01:14 PM
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5. Open primaries in WI so the Republicans in that town went out and voted for the fake Dem |
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Edited on Thu Jul-14-11 01:15 PM by NNN0LHI
I don't see anything odd about this at all.
Just Republicans being Republicans.
Don
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Thu Jul-14-11 01:31 PM
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6. Huber happens to live in Mequon |
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often a candidate will win on their home turf. I myself pulled over 80% of the vote in my home county and my opponent pulled over 80% of the vote in her home county, and the third candidate won the county closest to where he lives, which was almost the only county where he didn't finish in 3rd place. Location seems to matter.
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Thu Jul-14-11 02:00 PM
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Mequon is very affluent, very white, very republican and in general a rather creepy place, in my opinion. It's not really adjacent to Milwaukee. There are several towns in between.
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