No, Broun and Whitehead both ran as Republicans in a special election that pitted all R, D and L candidates against each other ... they were the two top vote getters and went into the runoff with two Rs against each other.
And Braun barely beat out the number 3 guy, a democrat, for the chance at the seat.
I guess this shows that the republicans in the election split the conservative vote?
Or does it show that the democrats decided to vote for Braun in the hopes he’d be easier to beat next year than Whitehead?
Because it seems otherwise that democrats would have voted for Whitehead as the less conservative of the two? Or did the democrats mostly stay home? We could tell that by looking at the actual vote counts, were there more votes in the original election than in the runoff? Did the total in the runoff add up to more or less than the votes of all the republicans who ran in the general?