Diebolding in the 3rd district

[pstokely]

nt

[Neecy]

1. yep

...and I'm worried about the GE. Does anyone have any polling data on this race taken prior to yesterday? I thought that Taff was slightly ahead (although I think the wingnut Kobach will be easier to defeat - although this dumbass inundated me with campaign literature, so he's well funded to be sending registered Democrats his filth).

[SheilaT]

2. Not if you're talking the Taff/Kobach race.

That was genuinely close. And even with a supposedly closed primary, remember two things: Unaffiliated voters could change their party affiliation to R at the polling place and vote as a Republican.

And somewhere between 20 and 30 percent of the registered Republicans in Johnson county are Democrats who register that way for the precise purpose of voting in the primary. Too many of them will then vote for the extreme right wing candidate on the theory that in the general election that person will be beaten by the moderate Democrat, but that's a bad strategy, in my opinion. What if the Dem loses? That's how we get people like Phill Kline as attorney general.

Plus, in other races, moderate Republicans lost their primaries, including Bill Kassebaum in the western part of the state, and Cindy Neighbor here in Johnson County. Kay O'Conner survived a moderate challenge. It was not a good day for moderates.

Even Lee Jones, a sensible moderate Democrat somehow lost his primary (U.S. Senate) to a total unknown who never campaigned anywhere. It's sad.

[beyurslf]

3. Lee JOnes did lose... but he won in places like Sedg Co and should have

won in Johnson COunty. But he lost by 3 to 1 there. And they use Diebold....