In my Central Kentucky district our incumbent is a solid conservative who won an upset against a moderate last time around. She’s a solid win in the general election.. but the Republican establishment decided they needed to get rid of her cuz she’s too conservative. They put up an establishment candidate and a crap load of money and dirty ads. I didn’t think she was going to make it, but she pulled it out with 65% of the votes last night. They out spent her three to one.
One downside to this is that the turnouts in the primaries all over the state was barely 13%. What the hell is the matter with people?
Turnout is how we lost the governorship twice. When 30% of the people vote the winner is the one who can simply turn out a few more of his supporters.
Oddly, ny district in NYS had a record low turnout, too.
Are you smelling a rat?
Because I am.
We can no longer trust our election results.
Any aspect of them, results, turnout numbers.
Not without audits.
And we should be auditing every election from now on.
Down to dog catcher.
That I would be more than willing to pay for.